investigate dynamic braille keycaps

[shapr]

chazz suggested braille feedback on keycaps

Are there braille displays small enough to put on a keycap?

[lizzyd710]

There are some keyboard stickers with braille on them and you just have to stick them on the keycaps. Is that what you meant?

[shapr]

That's cool, I'd like to get some of those, but it's not what I meant.

I was wondering if I could take apart an orbit reader 20 ( https://www.aph.org/research/orbit-reader-20-details/ ) and see if I could somehow fit individual braille character displays into a keycap. I doubt it's possible, but I won't know until I take one of those apart and see how they work.

[lizzyd710]

What would the goal of that be? Would the goal be having the braille letters on each keycap change when the key bindings/assignments are moved around? Kinda confused about what exactly you mean; I'm no expert in keyboards or braille keyboards. (I would love to help, I'm all for making technology and programs more accessible!)

[shapr]

I also no expert in any of this! I just come up with ideas and see if they might work.

Yes, exactly as you described, i'd want braille keycaps that change to display the current binding of a key.
Someone suggested using the optimus keyboard since it has a tiny LED display in every keycap.
But you can't see the display while your finger is on it, so I figured a one character braille display would make more sense.