Hi Evelyn I feel for you with your brailling problem. This is why I had to give up my Braillemate and go to a Transtype originally back in the 90's. As my fingers got weaker, I was not able to hold down the dots with even pressure and time the releasing of some and the pressing of others accurately enough not to keep inadvertantly typing chords and making all sorts of goofy things happen. Artic tried setting up an ergo braille for me with varying key pressure options and the option for the keys to type on the contact or on the release to try to make it work, but I still eventually had to just give up and go to qwerty where I either hit the key or didn't and I still have problems. I keep thinking of going back to the braille keyboard as it seems logical it would be easier not to have to find different keys all over the place, but then I remember the problems getting them all to register they've been hit at the same time and released at the same time and I just stick with what I've got.
The suggestion to change your ergonomics might help the most. If you can get a straight on attack to the keys like in piano playing it's more apt to register accurately, but then you've got the pressure for the thumb keys going the other direction as in away from you rather than downwarrd toward the table, and this may throw off the timing. Do you know how fast you braille? I used to at about 105 to 110 wpm and I still find strangely enough that I'm more accurate when I type faster except that I can't let go of the shift fast enough to turn off the caps for the I when I hit the ' so I get I" always. Does slowing down help? What about speeding up? Is your unit old enough it might need cleaning of contacts? Can that be done, Jonathan?
