[nabs-l] Reading Electronic Braille on a Display

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

Oh...those are the monitor cells, I'm pretty sure. You can turn them off in 
the Brail options in JAWS.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel" <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading Electronic Braille on a Display


> Thank you all for helping me figure it out. I'm reading my first
> digital book, and loving it! I had one more question. On the far left,
> it has some "gobbly-gook" (a bunch of symbols that don't make sense to
> me). I notice that I am constantly panning over to get the last few
> cells of a line, but if that junk on the left side were not there, I
> wouldn't have to pan over. Does anyone know what that is, and what I
> can do, if anything, to remove it?
>
> ~Jewel
>
> On 4/25/11, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>> You could also display it in notepad, word pad etc., and you should
>> be able to read the grade 2 braille fine.  You might need to shut up
>> speech, but it should look fine on display.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> At 10:58 AM 4/25/2011, you wrote:
>>>I have JAWS 11 and yes, I have Duxbury. The braille display is hoooked
>>>up to my Netbook.
>>>
>>>So, when I download a .brf file, I should open it in Duxbury, and turn
>>>off the grade 1 braille translation on my display? That sounds simple
>>>enough. I'll try it today, and see from there.
>>>~Jewel
>>>
>>>On 4/24/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> > Good question.
>>> > You can read .brf on a braille display but I'm not sure what file
>>> you'd open
>>> > them in.  Duxbury would work if you have that.
>>> > Is the braille display hooked to the computer?
>>> > Ashley
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Jewel
>>> > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:34 PM
>>> > To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>> > Subject: [nabs-l] Reading Electronic Braille on a Display
>>> >
>>> > Hey all,
>>> > Does anyone have step-by-step directions on how to read .brf files,
>>> > such as those from Bookshare.org? I have a Focus 40 Blue refreshable
>>> > Braille display, and would like to learn how to read Braille books
>>> > instead of listening to a stupid synthetic voice all the time. Any
>>> > links or personal directions would be greatly appreciated!
>>> >
>>> > ~Jewel
>>
>>          David Andrews and long white cane Harry, dandrews at visi.com
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>>
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