[nabs-l] Regarding Braille Note Issues And French Accented Letters on Laptop

Thu Feb 16 03:46:44 UTC 2017

Hi Rilind,
I'm not sure about the BrailleNote Apex issue, but best of luck with
Humanware. I hope it works out soon.
I can tell you a bit about switching languages. I did this with Italian, so
while I can't tell you which keys will get you the accents in French, I can
tell you the process. The last time I did this was on a windows 7 computer,
so these instructions might not be the most up-to-date. In the control
panel, there should be something called keyboard settings. In those
settings, you can add another language keyboard. Once you do this, you
should be able to switch between the keyboards with a key stroke (when I did
it, the key stroke was alt and shift pressed together). So when you have the
keyboard set to French, you'll have access to all the different accented
letters. You'll have to muck around a bit to figure out what is what, or I'm
sure you can find a list of what keys are what accents on the internet.
Another thing you could do is go to insert symbol in word and find the
accented letter you're looking for. I always found that to be more trouble
than it was worth, but that was before I knew that you could assign key
commands for each symbol. So it's up to you which way you want to go on
this. 
Finally, I know off the top of my head that if you hold down the control and
the grave keys on your keyboard and then hit a vowel, it will create that
letter with a grave accent. I'm sure there are shortcuts for the other
accents but I don't know them because Italian mostly uses the grave.
To change the language in word 2010, go to the review tab in the ribbon and
then arrow until you find change language (or set language). There's
probably a key command to get there but JAWS will tell you when you find it
if you have it set to tell you the shortcuts. Then you can select your
language from a dropdown list. After you do it the first time, that language
will stay at the top of the list, as will English, so it's easy to find and
switch back and forth. You can change the language of an entire document or
just a selected passage, and changing the language will cue jaws to change
language as well.
HTH.
Jameyanne

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From: NABS-L [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Vejas
Vasiliauskas via NABS-L
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Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas <alpineimagination at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Regarding Braille Note Issues And French Accented
Letters on Laptop

Hi Rilind,
I do not know much about French, because I have only taken Spanish. But in
my experience, the "restoring partition" message is very concerning. My Apex
displayed this message at one point  and I could not get it to wake up. I
was able to wake it up after plugging it in, but then about a month later,
the same message and  it could not wake up. So in my experience, sadly, this
message either means that the system is failing or will fail soon.  I really
hope this is not the case and that your adapter can fix the prblem. 
Vejas

> On Feb 15, 2017, at 08:45, Rilind Dragoshi via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone.
> I have a couple of questions about my Braille Note Apex, and about letters
also, as a result of some technical issues. I had a problem with my braille
note where when the battery had died, I plugged it in. It had first wanted
to do the reset, but had said "restoring Partition", and then not resetting
fully but rather just saying "keeper load failed", and then shutting down. I
called Humanware and they think it may be an adapter issue, since it
happened when the battery was removed also, when they had asked to do a test
without the battery. The adapter comes this week so I will find out soon
enough if it will be resolved or if there's something else happening.
> I'm wondering, has anyone had this issue before and how was it solved?
> 
> Also, as it may be that if I have to send it away I may need to use my
laptop even more, for things such as French for my French course I am
wondering, does anyone know how to switch languages for Microsoft Office
2010 documents? Also, on a laptop, (windows PC), how do you type accented
letters.
> Thanks and I definitely appreciate any help.
> Rilind.
> 
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