[nabs-l] Reading Electronic Braille on a Display

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

I don't remember. It was summer of 2009 that I last used a Braille display 
connected to the computer. Sorry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorge Paez" <computertechjorgepaez at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading Electronic Braille on a Display


> 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
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>> Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dandrews920
>>>>
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