Hi Jack, To reach braille settings on your mac, press control option f8 to open the voiceover utility. Then press b for braille.
The dots 7 and 8 you feel at the bottom of your display indicate that the text on the display is highlighted. For example, you may be reading a paragraph on a web page that you want to copy and email to a friend or save in a text file. Since the item you are reading is highlighted in voiceover by default, you can press control option shift C to copy the last item voiceover spoke to the clipboard. Then you could paste it where you want. So, that's the reason for the extra dots, though that doesn't make them less annoying. Suffice it to say, you can assume that voiceover has highlighted the contents of it's speech buffer and turn the highlight feature off so that it can be used for things such as indicating system highlights and/or the position of the cursor. To do this: Tab to the checkbox called use dots 7 and 8 to indicate cursor and press space to uncheck the box. The result should be instant relief from those constant marker dots being displayed. I find all of these options really messy and uncheck them all. I can always turn them back on if I need to do advanced word processing or some such. You might also want to adjust the display time for alert messages. You should be able to get grade two on your braille edge. Space 1245 or space G toggles grade two on and off. For password entry, web and email address fields, you might find it easier to enter text in computer braille than in grade two. If you activate the displays tab, you will have a button in there which shows the key bindings for the current braille display. It should be called assign commands or something. I don't have my display connected right now to double check. You will want to go in there and familiarize yourself with the preset key assignments. I am usually pretty unhappy with the defaults. Many features have two key assignments, while hundreds of available features have none at all. Setting up key bindings for full braille functionality is a tedious chore, but once you have it done, you can export your braille settings and save them for use on other macs or for re-instalation should you need to reformat. To test your key assignments, press space plus 13 or space plus K on your braille display. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf Follow my campaign on fund me for great promotions as I work to raise funds to take orientation and mobility certification training. http://www.fundme.com/en/projects/6287-Orientation-and-mobility-training-for-the-blind On 2014-08-15, at 9:07 AM, Jack and Becky <[email protected]> wrote: > Greeting Folks! I am a brand spanking new Mac user. Just starting hfind my > way about on it. I have a Mac book Pro. Running the latest version of > Mavericks. I am using a braille edge and am finding the interface to be > somewhat messy. I should add that I am a deaf person and Cannot use speech > at all! For instance there's a line of dots at the bottom of the display > which I believe are called attributes? This is to say the least somewhat > distracting. Also though I have my BE. set to Grade two translation there > is no such though strangely enough there is with my pacMate display which > doesn't look like it will be useable in this regard. If I am wrong in that > someone please set me straight. Anyhoo, where Do I go to find braille > settings and how do I clean things up just a bit?? Also for those of you if > there are any out there who use a braille display with your Mac how do you > find the experience?? Thanking you kindly in advance I am cordially yours > Jack Zimmerman > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
