Experiences with Elba

[Tommy Craig]

Hi John, 

	The address for the Elba group is:

Elba-subscribe at smartgroups.com 

	Please note that the e in Elba is capitolized. The reason that
speech doesn't stay of is that each application saves it's settings
separately. This is so you can have grade 2 in one application and not in
another one or speech on in one application and not in the others. You can
set items in the control center and they should stick unless you override
them in an application. 

	You can enter all the setup menus by typing t for tools and then s
for setup. Under this menu you have a number of submenus for setting speech,
braille, networking and much more. 

Tommy


-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:10 PM
To: blinux-list at redhat.com
Subject: Experiences with Elba


The Elba is indeed an interesting Linux Braille PDA. However, it takes 
some getting used to. So far, I haven't been able to set it to my 
preferences. In particular, I can't get it to stop talking. This is 
very irritating, since even with my cochlear implant turned off i can 
feel the vibrations. Also, if I switch it to Grade 2, it promptly goes 
back to computer braille when I change to a different application. I've 
tried turning off speech in the setup application numerous times, with 
no result. Maybe I have to be root to change the defaults, but there is 
no mention of this in the manual.

I haven't been able to subscribe to the Elba mailing list. The address given
here a few days ago doesn't seem to work.

With all that, the Elba has a nice user interface. It is a good example 
of how the usability generally associated with a GUI can be built into a 
text-mode interface. 

John

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