[nabs-l] Reading and writing Spanish

[Polansky]

Hi my name is Jason and I am taking spanish. I use a braille note, and 
my vision teacher is ordering me the spanish program. She says that it 
is hard to use. I think the school system might order me a laptop. 
Maybe if you give me the commands too, then I can use the laptop in 
spanish class. My spanish teacher told me to avoid the accent marks 
until I get the spanish program on my braille note.

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Hogue <harryhogue at yahoo.com>
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 3:55 am
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading and writing Spanish

Hi Lindsay,

You can change your keyboard layout to write in Spanish, at least in 
Windows.  Let me know if you're interested in knowing how to do this 
and I can tell you how.  It allows you to press the apostrophe followed 
by the letter you want accented, and shift with some other symbols--the 
inverted question mark, exclamation point, etc.  I can give you the key 
commands, bu the best thing to do, I've found, is once you ahve it 
changed over, just turn JAWS or Voiceover to read characters and play 
around with the different symbols.


I use a Focus 40 with JAWS, so I don't know if my display functions 
different as far as table layout, but I switch mine to ESP 438 or 
something like that.  It's the only "esp" in there.  You can, of 
course, always use another table, but those are the traditional symbols 
for what I guess is considered official Spanish Braille.  Please odn't 
hesitate to write me off list if you have any other questions or need 
help with Spanish or whatever.  It's a great language.

Harry


--- On Thu, 9/17/09, Lindsay Yazzolino <lindsay3.14 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lindsay Yazzolino <lindsay3.14 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nabs-l] Reading and writing Spanish
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:51 AM
> Hi,
> I am taking a Spanish course and am wondering if any of you
> could tell
> me how I can set my Braille display to show Spanish symbols
> correctly.
> I am using a BrailleConnect with a Mac, and would love to
> be able to
> read Spanish accented characters with VoiceOver, but would
> also
> greatly appreciate if someone could show me how to do this
> with JAWS
> as well. Also, is there a way to quickly input Spanish
> symbols,
> perhaps using unicode? Thanks.
>
> Lindsay
>
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