Hi John,
It is a shortcut on my desktop. I will have to investigate
launching applications from the apps folder to see if I can do the
same thing.]
Take
are
John D. Panarese
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On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:22 PM, John J Herzog wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> Upon further investigation, the behavior seems to be inconsistent. You
> can open folders by hitting the router button above the first letter.
> However, when I go into my hard drive, and select the applications
> folder, I cannot open any program I see in the list. As an example,
> voiceover repeatedly says "S" when pressing the first router button
> over safari.
> When you said you launched safari from your desktop, I'm assuming you
> had a shortcut to it on there? Or did you go into your applications
> folder and do it from there?
> Thanks,
> John
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:16 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi John,
>> I just did this. I clicked the rotor above the s in Safari and it
>> fired up Safari from my desktop.
>>
>> 1. You need to VO space on the, assign new commands, button.
>> 2. Select the, add, button. and VO space on that.
>> 3. A new row will be added to the table of listed commands. Pick
>> what
>> command you first want to be used from the menu button, which works
>> in
>> the same manner as assigning commands to NumPad or Keyboard
>> Commander.
>> 4. Once you have the command you want to define. type, command b on
>> the keyboard. You will then have five seconds to next select the
>> combination of keys on your BrailleNote you'd like to use. You
>> should
>> hear a series of chirps counting down the five seconds.
>>
>> Note, as a slight correction, the command I assigned was perform
>> action. You can't assigng an actual, Open, command. It is a
>> suggestion I made to Apple in regard to being able to assign OS X
>> keyboard commands to the Braille keys on the BN, such as, open,
>> enter,
>> etc..
>>
>>
>> Take Care
>>
>> John Panarese
>>
>> On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:50 PM, John J Herzog wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi John,
>>> Can you please tell me how to add a new braille display command? I
>>> can
>>> only seem to select pre existing commands and change those. It
>>> would
>>> be handy to have the O with space bar command, as pressing the
>>> router
>>> key over the first letter of the application does in deed just speak
>>> the letter.
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John
>>> On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:28 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi John
>>>> I would have to connect mine again to be certain, but you have to
>>>> be sure you click the cursor rotor that is above the first letter
>>>> of
>>>> the item. If this does not work, I assigned the spacebar and
>>>> letter o
>>>> on the display for opening applications.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Take Care
>>>>
>>>> John Panarese
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:20 PM, John J Herzog wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi listers,
>>>>> I have a question about using the braille note 32 as a display
>>>>> with
>>>>> voiceover. When my friend hooked hers up, everything worked fine,
>>>>> but
>>>>> she could not open various programs from the display. According to
>>>>> voiceover, the routing keys above each cell were supposed to
>>>>> perform
>>>>> the default action for a given application. However, when
>>>>> selecting
>>>>> safari using the routers, voiceover just announced the letter
>>>>> under
>>>>> the cursor and did not open it.
>>>>> Does anybody know how to open apps from the keyboard of the
>>>>> braille
>>>>> note? Failing this, is there any way to add such a command in? I
>>>>> looked at the commands currently set up, but didn't see one.
>>>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >
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