Hi, Guys,
Well, I'm already carrying enough stuff to church. When I go to Canada, I
will have even more. I might try the lapdesk though. Anything more than
that will not be very practical.
Evelyn
At 12:10 PM 9/9/05, you wrote:
Hi Evelyn,
I have had the same problem which you describe.
I'll be brailling along, and discover that I'm in a different place in the
file, or maybe I've activated a menu.
I'm thinking that the fact that you're brailling on your lap, a cushioned
surface, might just be your problem. Because there's some give, and some
amount of spring action, the BN may not be registering your keystrokes
accurately. As you come up from a keystroke, the bn follows your hands back
up, ever so slightly. This might be enough to make your release inaccurate.
A lap desk, with a harder surface, might help. But maybe something like a TV
tray, the kind you use for breakfast in bed, might help, particularly if the
seating surface is wooden.
Rusty
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Subject: Re: [Braillenote] cursor routing queery
Hi, Kathy,
I have had this unit since November and it arrived having been checked over
by Humanware first. It is in excellent condition. As I said, I am not using
a table at all. In most situations where I must take notes, the unit is on
my lap. I can Braille fast--fast enough to keep up with a speaker most of
the time.
Evelyn
At 11:28 AM 9/9/05, you wrote:
>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?
>
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