Hi.
Both my wife and I use Brailliant Displays.
First the "jack" style socket at the front of the unit is the
Serial Port, with the unit you get a lead with a standard 9 pin
mail rs 232 on one end and the appropriate jack socket on the
other, end enabling you to connect via serial port as well as
Bluetooth and USB.
All of the keys are indeed configurable via JAWS, personally I
don't like the keymap which comes when the drivers are installed,
but using the keyboard manager in JAWS it's very simple to
reprogram the keys.
Finally regarding the case, I suggested to our UK supplier that
it would be great to have a case which you could ware round your
neck, thus if your PC was connected to the display off Bluetooth,
you could literally move around the room and simultaneously
access your PC. This has particular interest to people using
Voice Recognition with Voice Output, an area which our company
has specific interest and expertees.
Hope all that is helpful, even though not specifically
braillenote related (sorry Mr. moderator.)
Terry Clasper.
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From: "Matthew Bullis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:40:12 -0700
Subject: [Braillenote] Some Brailliant questions
Hello, the staff at Humanware were kind enough to loan the
Foundation For
Blind Children here in Phoenix a Brailliant for my looking over.
I asked if
they could get a unit here so that I could see if it would meet
my needs for
an upcoming job. My questions which couldn't be answered by the
man showing
it to me are: what is the purpose of the jack in front of the
USB and power
sockets? It felt like a headphone jack. While I was dismayed
that it does
not have thumb keys, I suppose I'd get used to tapping the button
to advance
to the next line. I wonder though, why they set that as button
five on the
right? When I'm reading, my left hand travels back to the left
side of the
line when my right hand reaches the middle, so it's natural to
tap a button
on the left. I'm assuming that like all of the other braille
displays I've
used, that I can custom configure these buttons to do exactly
what and where
I want by using the key define function in my screen reader,
which happens
to be Jaws. Has anyone ever thought of a foot pedal to advance
up and down
text, instead of thumb keys or buttons? Also, does this display
have auto
advance like the Braille Note does? I never have gotten the auto
advance
timed just right for my reading speed, but I'm just wondering.
Is there a
carrying case which slips over the Brailliant to protect it while
not in
use? That was another thing the man didn't know, as he hadn't
been the one
to unpack it.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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