[nabs-l] Reading Electronic Braille on a Display

[Jorge Paez]

Monitor cells?
What's that supposed to do?


On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home wrote:

> 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>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading Electronic Braille on a Display
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> 
>> 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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