Story with google ?

NikNik · 04-01-2006 03:25PM #1

Why is google looking like braille ? What purpose does this serve to blind people if they can't feel it on the screen ?

Downtime · 04-01-2006 03:26PM

NikNik wrote:

Why is google looking like braille ? What purpose does this serve to blind people if they can't feel it on the screen ?

Are they not celebrating Louis Braille's birthday?

Karoma · 04-01-2006 03:26PM

* bangs head repeteadly to gain perspective

It's to mark L. Braille's birthday (hover mouse over the picture)
And blind people can use the Interweb too.. (the alt tag comes in handy)

KTRIC · 04-01-2006 03:27PM

Jaysus, have you not ever heard of a Braille computer ??

connundrum · 04-01-2006 03:29PM

Karoma wrote:

* bangs head repeteadly to gain perspective

*bangs forehead repeatedly against computer screen & looks in the mirror only to discover braille imprint on said forehead.. it spells duh (backwards)

:v:

fjon · 04-01-2006 03:31PM

Karoma wrote:

It's to mark L. Braille's birthday (hover mouse over the picture)

Or you can also click on the Braille writing:

http://www.google.ie/search?q=louis+braille+birthdate

NikNik · 04-01-2006 03:32PM

Oh right. Thought I was going blind there:rolleyes:

I thought braille computers had braille on the keyboard and the computer talks back at you. I've never seen a one with braille on the actual screen !

KTRIC · 04-01-2006 03:35PM

NikNik wrote:

Oh right. Thought I was going blind there:rolleyes:

I thought braille computers had braille on the keyboard and the computer talks back at you. I've never seen a one with braille on the actual screen !

Yeah , sure they do. How is the person typing supposed to know what they've typed. Then they can print it out on a Braille printer. I've seen them working in St.James's Hospital, very impressive.

dbnavan · 04-01-2006 03:42PM

Lots of advancement in IT and the internet recently to accomodate visually impared people, and those with physical needs, I for one think what google did is very good, as for a braile keyboard, i do know that if everyone looks there is a raised area on the J key and on number 5 on your number pad, there is software to say the keys that have been pressed too,

Karoma · 04-01-2006 04:00PM

...as for a braile keyboard, i do know that if everyone looks there is a raised area on the J key and on number 5 on your number pad...

Urm,Indeed!
There have been advancements in this area ..indeed.

(I just go an image of some blind person reading these forums with each letter being transcribed.. "!!!!! O..M..G.. LOL" .. heh)

projectmayhem · 04-01-2006 04:02PM

all you have to do is click on the logo and it'll tell you what it's for

Rb · 04-01-2006 04:03PM

So blind people can now operate braille weapons , I don't know whether to be happy for them or be afraid.

Karoma · 04-01-2006 04:11PM

rb_ie wrote:

So blind people can now operate braille weapons , I don't know whether to be happy for them or be afraid.

..and eye for an eye.. even when the world goes blind, the war shall continue..
:ninjamissing:

NikNik · 04-01-2006 04:28PM

Braille laser cannons, braille mortar-nukes, braille Tesla death rays and braille particle displacers are now standard-issue arms that allow blind soldiers to participate in battle

Laser cannons. Riiigght :rolleyes:

You never know though. The visually impaired could be the new soldiers of tomorrow. While the old kind of soldier will have to rely on sight, the new ones will be completely blind but specially developed with extra-sensitive hearing. Like sharks, they will be able to find the enemy by following the electrical impulses that they emit, and some special soldiers can smell a drop of blood in one million air particles. :cool:

Karoma · 04-01-2006 04:32PM

"Uncyclopedia.org FTW"
\o/

flogen · 04-01-2006 04:33PM

K-TRIC wrote:

Yeah , sure they do. How is the person typing supposed to know what they've typed. Then they can print it out on a Braille printer. I've seen them working in St.James's Hospital, very impressive.

I've never seen a PC with a Braille keyboard, the guys in my school just used to touch type and had a programme (called shark or something) that read the text back to them. That's why you have a little dot on your F and L keys.
Braillers (the old type-writer kind of things) didn't have alphabetical keys either, just 5 (I think) different keys which were hit in certain combinations in order to print out different words or letters, they were noisy buggers, and man did they hurt like hell when you got a whack in the legs of one.

billy the squid · 05-01-2006 01:43AM

flogen wrote:

I've never seen a PC with a Braille keyboard, the guys in my school just used to touch type and had a programme (called shark or something) that read the text back to them. That's why you have a little dot on your F and L keys.

JAWS actually. Job Application With Speech. bloody expensive program too. you can only install it three times and then you have to replace the disc.

Braillers (the old type-writer kind of things) didn't have alphabetical keys either, just 5 (I think) different keys which were hit in certain combinations in order to print out different words or letters, they were noisy buggers, and man did they hurt like hell when you got a whack in the legs of one.

Perkins braillers have six keys, a space bar and two keys at either side used for inserting and removing paper. There was a Mountbatton brailler invented which worked along the same principles as an electric typwriter but to date I have yet to see one in use.

Peteee · 05-01-2006 01:49AM

billy the squid wrote:

JAWS actually. Job Application With Speech. bloody expensive program too. you can only install it three times and then you have to replace the disc.

I'm curious, does the CD self destruct or something?

Atrocity · 05-01-2006 01:54AM

Louis Braille day? Any old excuse to change the front page. Maybe it's just a rogue web designer. I can't say my family have ever celebrated Louis Braille day, we were always more of a Marconi family

billy the squid · 05-01-2006 01:55AM

Peteee wrote:

I'm curious, does the CD self destruct or something?

No. The CD comes with an authentication floppy disk. to install the CD you need to use the floppy. once the floppy is used three times it will no longer install the CD. each floppy is married to its own CD therefore you cannot use a floppy from another copy of JAWS.

also the CD will not accept a copied version of the authentication floppy. don't know how they do that but they do.

05-01-2006 02:04AM

Atrocity wrote:

Louis Braille day? Any old excuse to change the front page. Maybe it's just a rogue web designer. I can't say my family have ever celebrated Louis Braille day, we were always more of a Marconi family

Marconi was a great british inventor as al murray would say!;)

Atrocity · 05-01-2006 02:20AM

yeah, and he got my respect.. I'm not really a Louis Braille celebrator

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