Corection: Begin Computer Braille is Dots 4-5-6, 3-4-6 (not 1-4-6). The 8-dot mode is used in ASCII mode to display capital letters. I leave it on all the time as it doesn't affect regular braille. The BS Plus does sometimes turn it off more-or-less mysteriously whent i don't want it to but I just turn it back on with the hot key F1+Scroll-down.
You cannot at present enter eight-dot braille. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stacey Robinson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] a few "newbie" questions Tony, I can answer your question about email addresses and such. The begin computer braille symbol is dots 4 5 6 dots 1 4 6 type the address www.google.com the period is dots f 4 6. or [email protected]. The at sign is u with space then dot 4.The end computer braille symbol is dots 4 5 6 then dots 1 5 6. Hope this helps. Have a blessed day, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Chesley Eagleville, Tennessee. [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tonilyn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 3:41 PM Subject: [GWN] a few "newbie" questions > Hi all, > > I am not really a newbie to braille, but am "late-blind" and have been > utheing braille for only 3 years. I am proficient in reading > contracted > braille and writing it, and also some computer braille, but since I > only > use it to do email, web, read books, and write documents for myself, > I > know little about 8-dot braille and computer braille. So please be > patient > with this old lady. SMILE > > First, I see that the Braille Sense Plus (and original) has an 8-dot > braille mode. Is that just to read it, but not type using it? > > Secondly, 'in what cases would you need to use 8-dot braille? I have > heard > for some foreign languages, but what else? Formatting documents? > Nemeth > codae? > > Thirdly, this is about using computer braille. Is there a way to use > grade > 2 braille with marks around it to make it computer braille? or > anything > like that? I don't know if that makes sense, so for example, instead > of > having to switch to ASCII and type an email address, is there a way to > do > it in grade 2 and get the "at" sign in it AND make it "clickable" for > desktop computer users, and the same with web addresses (I hope one > day > we can click on links and such in email on our Br and Voice Senses!)? > Or > do you just have to change ! Ascii? I just notiace that sometimes when > I > go to AASCII and then back to grade 2 that some characters change ! > numbers and I have to correct it. > > And lastly, this is about the web browser on the Braille Sense Plus. I > found an option for "user mode" with the options of Windows CE, > Windows > XP, and, I think the third one was pocket PC . What is it for? > > Thanks, > Toni-Deaf-blind and DETERMINED! > > > > > > > > > > > Toni comDEAF-BLIND and DETERMINED! > > * Founder of Pip's Cause > http://www.pipscause.org > Dedicated to helping people who are deaf-blind > > * Hoop Dancer "Vertigo-geaux" > Hooping it up DEAF-BLIND and DIZZY!!! > http://www.vimeo.com/thundershyne > > can >
