It’s s-chord (dots 2-3-4-space). I just use the panning keys to display 
different areas of the menu bar, and then use the cursor-routing keys on the 
item I want. sometimes this doesn’t work, and I have to use dot 4-chord and dot 
1-chord to navigate through the menus

HtH,
teresa

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too 
dark to read."--Groucho Marx

On Nov 12, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote:

> True duys, but I know I can get to the menu with my braille display. I c' 
> remember how to do it on a Focus 40 although I had one. Can anyone remember 
> what the braille keyboard command is for going to the menu and using left and 
> right arrows. I found that useful when I was somewhat away from my computer. 
> On my Braille Edge, it has some keys on it that will bring up Spotlight and 
> the menus and the dock. That may help some. For instance, space dd sign will 
> bring up the dock. Space question mark will let you interact and space low j 
> will stop interacting. Do you have a list of braille key commands that are 
> already in place? 
> 
> Regards, 
> Gigi 
> 
> On Nov 12, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Daniel Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Teresa is correct, you have to do a lot of customizing in order to get your 
>> focus display to work as your keyboard. Unfortunately, you will have to use 
>> your keyboard more than you would like to. That's just the nature of the 
>> beast.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Admittedly, yes, I’m also using a keyboard. My opinion is that you’ll 
>>> probably have to do quite a lot of customizing to use a Braille display as 
>>> a primary keyboard.
>>> 
>>> For switching apps, I’d probably map a braille keystroke to VO-applications 
>>> list. (VO-f1 twice quickly)I don’t think there’s an easy way to map one to 
>>> command-tab.
>>> 
>>> HtH,
>>> Teresa
>>> 
>>> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too 
>>> dark to read."--Groucho Marx
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Okay, I look and I don't see some things that seem to be rather importatn. 
>>>> For example, if you are wanting to switch from one open app to another, 
>>>> how do you do it with the display. Are you using a keyboard along with the 
>>>> display?
>>>> 
>>>> Kristeen
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi, Kristeen,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a focus 40 Blue and use it constantly with Mavericks. I haven’t 
>>>>> tried assigning keystrokes for selecting text, etc. but there’s a good 
>>>>> chance it can be done. In the vO utility, you can go to Braille and view 
>>>>> the assigned commands for your Braille display and modify or assign new 
>>>>> ones. There’s a lot of stuff in there, so have fun exploring. :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> HtH,
>>>>> Teresa
>>>>> 
>>>>> "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This may have been discussed before, but I have to try again. I would 
>>>>>> like to use my Focus 40 Blue with my Mac Mini. I would prefer not to 
>>>>>> have to use another keyboard along with it. Are there any ways to add 
>>>>>> important keystrokes like switching between open programs and closing a 
>>>>>> window or program, etc? Along with that is it truly possible to cut and 
>>>>>> paste and manipulate text? Of someone wants to address this stuff off of 
>>>>>> the list, that's cool.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kristeen
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Oct 24, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi guys
>>>>>>> I had so many problems I had to go back to mountain kitty. They weren't 
>>>>>>> just with my braille display, which I reported is doing fine yesterday. 
>>>>>>> However, today I couldn't even navigate properly in TextEdit. I 
>>>>>>> couldn't even tell what I'd selected to the end of the text didn't tell 
>>>>>>> me. I was getting too many finder busy messages also, and I couldn't 
>>>>>>> always navigate and tell where I was.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I had to call that 877 number, and he is checking for me.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Regards and a little stressed, but this is computers were talking about,
>>>>>>> Gigi
>>>>>>> Eugenia Firth
>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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