To start the new week, we’d like to recommend a very special podcast episode to you.
The FSCast Episode #261
A large part of the episode focuses on a groundbreaking innovation in the way Braille can be represented. A real game changer! Further details about the episode are provided by Oleg Shevcun.
We wish you lots of enjoyment listening to the episode or reading the transcript.
Braille displays are going multiline
The landscape is changing. With the latest graphical Braille displays, screenreader users will be able to access multiline Braille functionality, which opens up some entirely new ways of interacting with your documents and applications. As one of the developers said: “It’s like going to the color high-res screen for a sighted person”.
If you are a user of JAWS, and you have access to either the Monarch or the DotPad Braille display, then you will experience this functionality just within a few days. We are sure that other screenreader developers are introducing this as well.
On the latest episode of FSCast, the official podcast of Freedom Scientific, we talk with Joe Stephen, the leading developer behind this new functionality, and Rusty Kelly, one of its early testers. Both of them are Braille users with decades of experience. On the podcast, Joe and Rusty talk extensively about what multiline Braille support means and how it works. And of course, there is also a look into the future.
The August episode of FSCast and the Transscript are available at this link
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