Hi Tessa,
I don't find any of this confusing, but I've used Braille all of my life.
Have a blessed day,
Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Chesley
Eagleville, Tennessee.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tessa" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 6:08 AM
Subject: [GWN] Keyboard questions
Hi all
I'm just curious why on a perkins brailleer the backspace is on the right,
the return key on the left but the bs has them on opposite ends? It's a
touch confusing when coming from using a brailleer to the bs to remember
which is which.
Which also raises the issue of key numbering. We number the braille keys
starting at the space bar so reading from the left hand side of the key
board we have the backspace, then dots 3 2 and 1 but when we go to the
function keys they are numbered the opposite way, don't you think this is
needlessly confusing? why not have the function keys numbered the same way
as the braille keys?
Or maybe others don't find this as confusing as I do periodically anyway.
the manual will say fble: and fble. and I have to pause to think now just
which keys are those anyway, LOL. Of course I've been using a qwerty
keyboard for so long I must admit writing braille again is also a
challenge, I find myself continuously hitting dot #: when I mean the
letter a, go figure.
None the less I definitely like the bs and am glad I purchased it.
Tessa
