braillepen 12 touch question

2014-05-10 Thread alia robinson
am investigating braille displays, and was wondering about the braillepen 12 touch. I think I remember someone saying the routing keys didn't work with voiceover? is this true or is there some work around. Alia -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone

Re: braillepen 12 touch question

2014-05-10 Thread Amy Harris
Hi Alia, I just asked some questions here about the BraillePen 12 Touch a couple of days ago. I also emailed Larry Lewis, from Flying Blind, whose info has been posted on this group a couple of times. He is very helpful!!! In my email to him, one of the questions that I asked was whether

Re: braillepen 12 touch question

2014-05-10 Thread alia robinson
It helps. I use a mac and iphone. I am still not sure what to do. have it narrowed down a bit though now, thanks. Alia On May 10, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Amy Harris aharr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alia, I just asked some questions here about the BraillePen 12 Touch a couple of days ago. I also

Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-05 Thread Stephanie
I have the braille pen, but not the touch. It's quite good, although i miss the routing buttons. Steph - Original Message - From: Amy Harris aharr...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014 3:04 am Subject: BraillePen 12 Touch Hi all. Has anyone used

Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-05 Thread Stacey Robinson
Amy, The braillepen 12 doesn't have cursor routing keys. Just a joystick. Blessings, Stacey Robinson mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On May 3, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Amy Harris wrote: Hi all. Has anyone used the BraillePen 12 Touch, the one with the routing touch areas above each braille cell

RE: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-05 Thread Amy Harris
Hi all, and thanks for the opinions I've gotten so far. Stacey, thanks for letting me know that the 12 doesn't have any form of routing keys at all. That makes the decision easy. I'll get the BraillePen 12 Touch. Are there any problems that anyone has run into with either the 12, or, if anyone

Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-04 Thread brian albriton
Thanks Amy. It's good to know there is a workaround for this. I am very happy with my Braille Penn. I've had it for a couple of years now. You can't beat the price. It's small and portable. I can even carry it in the pocket of my dress slacks. I hasten to add, that you can't put anything else

BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-03 Thread Amy Harris
Hi all. Has anyone used the BraillePen 12 Touch, the one with the routing touch areas above each braille cell? I'd like to know whether it is worth buying one to work with my iDevices? Also, I think the answer is no, but just to double-check, does the BraillePen 12, not the new Touch version

Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-03 Thread brian albriton
aharr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Has anyone used the BraillePen 12 Touch, the one with the routing touch areas above each braille cell? I'd like to know whether it is worth buying one to work with my iDevices? Also, I think the answer is no, but just to double-check, does the BraillePen

RE: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-03 Thread Amy Harris
Thanks for the reply Brian. I did contact the vendor. They actually say that you can set the BraillePen Touch up as a different braille device and it works. They say that’s a temporary work-around, but that it works for now, and that Apple has had the new BraillePen Touch for 6 months now