[Ohio-talk] braille display problem

[Deborah Kendrick]

Kelsey,
On either side of your Brailliant are six key, in a formation similar to a
braille cell.
Consequently, they are numbered like dots in a cell, C1 C2 C3 on the left,
C4 C5 C6 on the right.
If you press C1 C2 C4 C5 together (like a braille letter g), you will cycle
among the various type of braille input and output.  
You'll have to experiment with it to get the results you are looking for,
and I'm surprised HumanWare tech support did not point this out to you.
If you have the right form of contracted or unctracted and want dots 7 and 8
to go away, press those keys that would make a lower cell number 6, that is,
C2 C3 C5.  Again, this one will cycle through options.

I don't have one here to test and give you more precise instructions, but
the above should get you on the road you need.
Deborah


-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kelsey
Nicolay via Ohio-talk
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 10:12 PM
To: ohio-talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: Kelsey Nicolay
Subject: [Ohio-talk] braille display problem

Hello,
Sorry if this is slightly off topic, but I was hoping someone could help.  I
use a Brailliant Bi 40 at my job.  In JAWS, I have set my contracted Braille
to input and output.  The user guide for the Brailliant says that you can
write in either contracted or uncontracted Braille.  I have noticed lately
that I am getting some very interesting results when using contracted
Braille, especially Internet Explorer.  When I do my Google searches from
Salesforce, there is a custom link that already has the company name listed
and all I have to do is put in the city and state in order to find the phone
number.  For example, today one of the company names I was searching for had
the letters llc after their name.  I entered the city and state in
contracted Braille and as soon as I did that, I got "company name littlec"
city and state in the search field.  I was able to go back and correct it,
but having to do this takes time away from my job.  I also notice that it is
impossible to enter numbers without them being translated into their
respective contractions.  For example, when I try to enter a number in
literary Braille, I get something like "blecgd..." and I have to go back and
correct it using the computer keyboard.  I also have a Focus blue that I use
for my ipad and laptop and I  have never noticed any issues like this when
using it with JAWS.  I can do numbers in either computer or literary Braille
with the number sign and they translate just fine in Internet Explorer as do
the other contractions.  
Therefore, what could be causing the Brailliant to have these issues when
using contracted Braille and is there a way to correct it? Computer Braille
does not save me any time on the job, so that's why I prefer contracted
Braille.  When I've spoken to tech support about it, they just say use
computer Braille even though it says in the user guide that you can use
either one.
Thank you,
Kelsey Nicolay

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