RE: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone
I want to thank all of you who offered good suggestions on my problem with the braille keys on the focus 4 not working with iOS 6 on an iPhone 5. I called FS Tech Support and they were of absolutely no help at all! I told them that everything else worked except the braille keys and they had no idea. So I read the manual from start till I found the info. I had inadvertently locked the keyboard. I unlocked it per the manual instructions and it works wonderfully. I share this egg-on-my-face anecdote in case it is helpful to anyone else whose Perkins keys don't work on their display with an iOS device. Make sure the keys are unlocked!!! I am very disappointed with FS Tech Support for not asking if my keys were locked and telling me how to unlock them. I did not know that this was an option at the time. Best, Terrie Terlau -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimber Gardner Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 3:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone Did this command ever work for you? I'm running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s and the dots 1 and 4 chords work perfectly. What I'm wondering is since you are running an older version of iOS, maybe this command is new in iOS 7. But to answer your question, you will not lose data if you perform a reset. Have you tried turning the phone off and back on? Or re-establishing the pairing? Kimber On 5/6/14, Terrie Terlau terrie...@twc.com wrote: Hello all, My Focus 14 blue is paired with my iPhone 5 running iOS 6. The space with dot 1 or dot 4 keystrokes do not perform the forward and backward flicks. The keystroke list on the Freedom Scientific page says that they should. Could my phone be somehow corrupt? Is there a hard reboot for the iPhone 5? If so, could someone share the way to do it?Will I lose data if I do a hard reboot? Thanks very much for your help. Terrie Terlau -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:02 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iPhone and RefreshaBraille question Hi, Raul's method works, but there's a quicker one. Space with 2-3-5-6 is Select All. Space with C is Copy. Space with V is Paste. And Space with X is Cut. This works on most braille displays. Best, Anna On May 6, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, I don't have one personally but I have trained people on using them. You can get the list of refreshabraille specific hot keys from the following link. http://tech.aph.org/rbd_doc.htm To copy text, you need to be editing in a field. You can do a rotor forward with space-56 until it says edit. Then swipe down with space-6 until it says select all. Then double tap by pressing one of the cursor routing keys. Next swipe down again with space-6 until it says copy. then activate copy with a double tap pressing a cursor routing key. Now the text has been copied to the clipboard. The next step is to go into the app you will be pasting it into. Once you are in the new edit field and are editing, again, repeat the steps above, but instead of choosing select all, choose paste and then when you press the cursor routing key for a double tap, the text will be pasted into the edit field you are in. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Love is in the air? Wrong. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon and Carbon Dioxide are in the air. Bazinga. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/6/2014 2:28 AM, Jim Portillo wrote: Howdy, Does anyone here use an iPhone with a RefreshaBraille? I have someone asking me some questions, and since I don't know the answer or have access to one, I thought i'd ask this list. First, is there some kind of list of keyboard commands for the RefreshaBraille to be used with the iPhone? Second, how do I do the following: Copy the text from an email and put it into the Notes app, making new notes. If anyone knows how to do these tasks with this Braille display, I'd appreciate some assistance. Thanks much! Jim Sent from my iPhone 5. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group
Re: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone
Terrie, Wha to do you mean by your keys were locked? Could you share how you unlocked them? Best, Wayne On 5/26/14, Terrie Terlau terrie...@twc.com wrote: I want to thank all of you who offered good suggestions on my problem with the braille keys on the focus 4 not working with iOS 6 on an iPhone 5. I called FS Tech Support and they were of absolutely no help at all! I told them that everything else worked except the braille keys and they had no idea. So I read the manual from start till I found the info. I had inadvertently locked the keyboard. I unlocked it per the manual instructions and it works wonderfully. I share this egg-on-my-face anecdote in case it is helpful to anyone else whose Perkins keys don't work on their display with an iOS device. Make sure the keys are unlocked!!! I am very disappointed with FS Tech Support for not asking if my keys were locked and telling me how to unlock them. I did not know that this was an option at the time. Best, Terrie Terlau -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimber Gardner Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 3:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone Did this command ever work for you? I'm running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s and the dots 1 and 4 chords work perfectly. What I'm wondering is since you are running an older version of iOS, maybe this command is new in iOS 7. But to answer your question, you will not lose data if you perform a reset. Have you tried turning the phone off and back on? Or re-establishing the pairing? Kimber On 5/6/14, Terrie Terlau terrie...@twc.com wrote: Hello all, My Focus 14 blue is paired with my iPhone 5 running iOS 6. The space with dot 1 or dot 4 keystrokes do not perform the forward and backward flicks. The keystroke list on the Freedom Scientific page says that they should. Could my phone be somehow corrupt? Is there a hard reboot for the iPhone 5? If so, could someone share the way to do it?Will I lose data if I do a hard reboot? Thanks very much for your help. Terrie Terlau -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:02 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iPhone and RefreshaBraille question Hi, Raul's method works, but there's a quicker one. Space with 2-3-5-6 is Select All. Space with C is Copy. Space with V is Paste. And Space with X is Cut. This works on most braille displays. Best, Anna On May 6, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, I don't have one personally but I have trained people on using them. You can get the list of refreshabraille specific hot keys from the following link. http://tech.aph.org/rbd_doc.htm To copy text, you need to be editing in a field. You can do a rotor forward with space-56 until it says edit. Then swipe down with space-6 until it says select all. Then double tap by pressing one of the cursor routing keys. Next swipe down again with space-6 until it says copy. then activate copy with a double tap pressing a cursor routing key. Now the text has been copied to the clipboard. The next step is to go into the app you will be pasting it into. Once you are in the new edit field and are editing, again, repeat the steps above, but instead of choosing select all, choose paste and then when you press the cursor routing key for a double tap, the text will be pasted into the edit field you are in. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Love is in the air? Wrong. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon and Carbon Dioxide are in the air. Bazinga. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/6/2014 2:28 AM, Jim Portillo wrote: Howdy, Does anyone here use an iPhone with a RefreshaBraille? I have someone asking me some questions, and since I don't know the answer or have access to one, I thought i'd ask this list. First, is there some kind of list of keyboard commands for the RefreshaBraille to be used with the iPhone? Second, how do I do the following: Copy the text from an email and put it into the Notes app, making new notes. If anyone knows how to do these tasks with this Braille display, I'd appreciate some assistance. Thanks much! Jim Sent from my iPhone 5. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop
RE: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone
Hi Wayne and all, I am pasting the quote from the User's Guide that saved my sanity (grin)! Hope this helps anyone else who is ever in my position. To lock the Focus Blue keyboard, press the Power button to display the status information and then simultaneously press a Cursor Router and the left Mode button. To indicate that the keyboard is locked, DOTS 2-3-4-6-7-8 and DOTS 1-3-5-6-7-8 will be displayed in two cells toward the right end of the display, just before the connection status. Press any other control to return to normal operation. Once locked, pressing DOTS 1 through 8 or the SPACEBAR will no longer send keystrokes through to the computer. To unlock the keyboard so you can once again enter text or perform commands from the Focus Blue, press the Power button to display the status information and then simultaneously press a Cursor Router and the right Mode button. Press any other control to return to normal operation and you can once again enter text using the Focus Blue keyboard. Terrie -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 2:59 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone Terrie, Wha to do you mean by your keys were locked? Could you share how you unlocked them? Best, Wayne On 5/26/14, Terrie Terlau terrie...@twc.com wrote: I want to thank all of you who offered good suggestions on my problem with the braille keys on the focus 4 not working with iOS 6 on an iPhone 5. I called FS Tech Support and they were of absolutely no help at all! I told them that everything else worked except the braille keys and they had no idea. So I read the manual from start till I found the info. I had inadvertently locked the keyboard. I unlocked it per the manual instructions and it works wonderfully. I share this egg-on-my-face anecdote in case it is helpful to anyone else whose Perkins keys don't work on their display with an iOS device. Make sure the keys are unlocked!!! I am very disappointed with FS Tech Support for not asking if my keys were locked and telling me how to unlock them. I did not know that this was an option at the time. Best, Terrie Terlau -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimber Gardner Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 3:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone Did this command ever work for you? I'm running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s and the dots 1 and 4 chords work perfectly. What I'm wondering is since you are running an older version of iOS, maybe this command is new in iOS 7. But to answer your question, you will not lose data if you perform a reset. Have you tried turning the phone off and back on? Or re-establishing the pairing? Kimber On 5/6/14, Terrie Terlau terrie...@twc.com wrote: Hello all, My Focus 14 blue is paired with my iPhone 5 running iOS 6. The space with dot 1 or dot 4 keystrokes do not perform the forward and backward flicks. The keystroke list on the Freedom Scientific page says that they should. Could my phone be somehow corrupt? Is there a hard reboot for the iPhone 5? If so, could someone share the way to do it?Will I lose data if I do a hard reboot? Thanks very much for your help. Terrie Terlau -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:02 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iPhone and RefreshaBraille question Hi, Raul's method works, but there's a quicker one. Space with 2-3-5-6 is Select All. Space with C is Copy. Space with V is Paste. And Space with X is Cut. This works on most braille displays. Best, Anna On May 6, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, I don't have one personally but I have trained people on using them. You can get the list of refreshabraille specific hot keys from the following link. http://tech.aph.org/rbd_doc.htm To copy text, you need to be editing in a field. You can do a rotor forward with space-56 until it says edit. Then swipe down with space-6 until it says select all. Then double tap by pressing one of the cursor routing keys. Next swipe down again with space-6 until it says copy. then activate copy with a double tap pressing a cursor routing key. Now the text has been copied to the clipboard. The next step is to go into the app you will be pasting it into. Once you are in the new edit field and are editing, again, repeat the steps above, but instead of choosing select all, choose paste and then when you press the cursor routing key for a double tap, the text will be pasted into the edit field you are in. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Love is in the air? Wrong. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon and Carbon Dioxide are in the air. Bazinga. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter
Re: Focus 14 Blue and iPhone
Did this command ever work for you? I'm running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s and the dots 1 and 4 chords work perfectly. What I'm wondering is since you are running an older version of iOS, maybe this command is new in iOS 7. But to answer your question, you will not lose data if you perform a reset. Have you tried turning the phone off and back on? Or re-establishing the pairing? Kimber On 5/6/14, Terrie Terlau terrie...@twc.com wrote: Hello all, My Focus 14 blue is paired with my iPhone 5 running iOS 6. The space with dot 1 or dot 4 keystrokes do not perform the forward and backward flicks. The keystroke list on the Freedom Scientific page says that they should. Could my phone be somehow corrupt? Is there a hard reboot for the iPhone 5? If so, could someone share the way to do it?Will I lose data if I do a hard reboot? Thanks very much for your help. Terrie Terlau -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:02 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iPhone and RefreshaBraille question Hi, Raul's method works, but there's a quicker one. Space with 2-3-5-6 is Select All. Space with C is Copy. Space with V is Paste. And Space with X is Cut. This works on most braille displays. Best, Anna On May 6, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, I don't have one personally but I have trained people on using them. You can get the list of refreshabraille specific hot keys from the following link. http://tech.aph.org/rbd_doc.htm To copy text, you need to be editing in a field. You can do a rotor forward with space-56 until it says edit. Then swipe down with space-6 until it says select all. Then double tap by pressing one of the cursor routing keys. Next swipe down again with space-6 until it says copy. then activate copy with a double tap pressing a cursor routing key. Now the text has been copied to the clipboard. The next step is to go into the app you will be pasting it into. Once you are in the new edit field and are editing, again, repeat the steps above, but instead of choosing select all, choose paste and then when you press the cursor routing key for a double tap, the text will be pasted into the edit field you are in. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Love is in the air? Wrong. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon and Carbon Dioxide are in the air. Bazinga. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/6/2014 2:28 AM, Jim Portillo wrote: Howdy, Does anyone here use an iPhone with a RefreshaBraille? I have someone asking me some questions, and since I don't know the answer or have access to one, I thought i'd ask this list. First, is there some kind of list of keyboard commands for the RefreshaBraille to be used with the iPhone? Second, how do I do the following: Copy the text from an email and put it into the Notes app, making new notes. If anyone knows how to do these tasks with this Braille display, I'd appreciate some assistance. Thanks much! Jim Sent from my iPhone 5. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are
Re: Focus 14 Blue with iPhone: Closing Applications From the App Switcher
You cannot close apps in the app switcher in iOS 6 using a braille display.You can close apps from in the app switcher in iOS 7 using a braille display. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:31, Sirena sieradr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, guys, I'm using a Focus 14 braille display with my iPhone. So far, it's been great for the light use to which I put it. I had a question though. How does one close applications from the app switcher. I'm still using IOS 6 and I'm just not sure how to do it. Is this list an okay place for braille display questions? Thanks, guys. Si -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Focus 14 Blue with iPhone: Closing Applications From the App Switcher
You can't, as far as I know. To close apps you must double tap and hold, and there is no gesture for that. In iOS7 this is possible, because apps are closed with a three-finger flick up, but not in iOS6 or below. On Feb 25, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Sirena sieradr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, guys, I'm using a Focus 14 braille display with my iPhone. So far, it's been great for the light use to which I put it. I had a question though. How does one close applications from the app switcher. I'm still using IOS 6 and I'm just not sure how to do it. Is this list an okay place for braille display questions? Thanks, guys. Si -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
