Hey Erik, nice to hear from you again (I remember you from the audiobook
library) it is GREAT to hear that it is actually possible to use the mac with
braille exclusively since this is wha tI normally always do with windows, and
although I really dig the alex voice (it is REALLY natural sounding imo) i
guess I still would be more productive with just braille only.
Although I bet semicolumn would work too, i really appreciate that there are so
many ways of doing stuff with vo it really gives you a lot of flexibility that
I am not used to at all with Hal.
Greetings, Anouk,
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From: erik burggraaf
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: does reading on the mac take two hands?
Hi, you will get best joy out of your braille display, since a button on your
display will be set to scroll right and another to scroll left. In many
instances where reading is required, such as typing a document in text edit,
the arrow keys do just fine on their own with out needing to use the voice over
keys. When you need to use the voice over keys for long periods of reading,
your best bet is to simply lock the voice over keys with control option
semicolon. Once you do that, every press on the keybord will act as if you
also pressed the voice over keys even though you haven't actually pressed them.
Or to think of it another way, the voice over keys will be perminantly pressed
without you needing to take care of that yourself until you press the semicolon
to releace them.
All things being equal though I suspect you will probably turn speech off and
use braille exclusively if you really like braille. I have a friend who does
this and it's sick to watch. I'd love to be able to do it, but I'm just not
that good at braille.
Best,
erik burggraaf
A+ sertified technician and user support consultant.
Phone: 888-255-5194
Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com
On 17-Jul-09, at 9:31 AM, a radix wrote:
Hello everyone, ok this may sem elike a strange question but I read that,
if you want to navigate through a window to review it, or a document for
example you need to use the voice key (which is either command or control if i
got that right)+ arrow down or up, but would tha tnot require both hand and is
there a way to do it single handedly. I use braille all the time and this would
make it a lot slower for me to read stuff, or will maybe the arrow keys on my
braille display be able to simulate this, i Wonder.
Greetings, Anouk,
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