[NABS-L] BrailleNote Touch questions

Alexandra Alfonso alliefa1999 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 16:29:04 UTC 2019


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> On Oct 4, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Sandra Gayer via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Sami,
> I use a Braillenote Touch. I can't help with your questions because I
> do not use the Internet with it. My needs are word processing and a
> few other offline tasks. I use the computer or smartphone for email.
> However, I hope someone answers you soon.
> 
> Very best wishes,
> Sandra.
> 
>> On 10/4/19, Sami Osborne via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a few somewhat unrelated questions for those who use the BrailleNote
>> Touch.
>> 
>> I've had mine for over a year now, and am really enjoying it so far. I feel
>> that it's definitely an improvement over the Apex, especially in terms of
>> crashing and other things. However, there are some things easily
>> accomplished on the Apex that I haven't been able to figure out on the Touch
>> yet. I've looked in the user guide as well as searched up things on
>> Humanware's website, however the user guide is rather vague in some places
>> (at least less clear than the Apexs' was), and there's nothing on the
>> website about these things.
>> 
>> First of all, how can you keep email attachments that you receive on the
>> device? In my experience, you can save the attachment, but there might be
>> times when you just decide to open it for some quick reading and then refer
>> to it afterwords. Also, for some reason, if you open the attachment directly
>> and then intend to go back to it, the document (and sometimes the whole
>> email itself) will just randomly disappear with no explanation. Has anyone
>> had that happen to them?
>> 
>> Also related to email, is there a way to  just quickly select multiple
>> recipients? Whenever I've had to do this, I would add the name and email
>> address in my contacts, and then choose the button that says "Select
>> recipient." However there may be times when you need to send an email once
>> to multiple people, and you might not need to always keep their addresses.
>> On the Apex, it will just say "Send to:," "Also send to:," "Copy to:," and
>> "Blind copy to:." Also while we're on that note, is there a way to
>> copy/blind copy someone on an email with the Touch.
>> 
>> Finally, is there a way to navigate between pages in Google Drive or Docs? I
>> tried pressing SPACE with M for the context menu, but it doesn't give me
>> that option, plus SPACE with T to navigate elements, but that doesn't work
>> in those kinds of documents. I know you can find a specific term which can
>> bring you to the next page, but you may not always know what words are
>> contained in the document, so I think it would be easier to scroll between
>> pages.
>> 
>> I hope you guys who use a BrailleNote Touch can help me out, because these
>> quirky new adjustments from the Apex are really starting to get to me.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help,
>> 
>> Sami
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