Hi,

How do you permit your braille cursor to navigate the app without moving the 
keyboard or voice-over cursor, or is the voice-over cursor the Brialle cursor?


On 13/11/2013, at 4:41 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Kristeen,
> 
> This is the sort of thing that I meant when I mentioned customization. WHAT 
> you’d have to do is go into your Braille settings, go to the display tab, 
> choose “assign commands", and assign a Braille command to select text. There 
> aren’t separate commands for selecting different amounts of text, so 
> honestly, I’m not sure how you’d do this. Also, unless I’m wrong, you’d have 
> to use command-b on the keyboard to initiate the Braille command entry. I 
> haven’t assigned keystrokes for this, because frankly, it’s more trouble than 
> it’s worth to me. Let’s see if anyone else has already done this, and if not, 
> I’ll experiment with it and let you know what I come up with. I admit I have 
> my doubts that it’ll be an easy process.
> 
> HtH,
> Teresa
> 
> "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham
> 
> On Nov 12, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Kristeen Hughes <khwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks,. This info does help. Can you tell me how I can sellect text? I've 
>> not been successful.
>> 
>> Kristeen
>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Daniel Miller <miller...@gmail.com> 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 <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> 
>>>> 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 <khwi...@gmail.com> 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 <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> 
>>>>>> 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 <khwi...@gmail.com> 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 <gigifi...@me.com> 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
>>>>>>>> gigifi...@sbcglobal.net
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
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