Hello Roger Yes, this works, and I use this method all the time on other devices. But I can’t get digits to work. Computer Braille doesn’t seem to work either at the password prompt.
================================================= My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <[email protected]> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0) 7907 823971 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 ---------------------------------------- —— > On 20 Aug 2017, at 12:32, Roger Firman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Gordon, > > I’m taking it that you have a braille input keyboard with eight keys i.e. so > you can generate dots 1 to 6 plus seven and eight? > > If so, hold down the key which would generate the lowest dot on the left hand > side of the cell and at the same time press the dots for the braille letter > you wish to make upper-case. > > Best wishes, > > Roger. > > From: Gordon Smith [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: 20 August 2017 09:52 > To: Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm! <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [Techno-Chat]: Strange Question Regarding Braille Input > > Hello everybody > > I’ve stumbled upon an issue. To which I just cannot find the answer. I’ve > banged my head against so many walls that bits are starting to fall off it! > So now, I have to bug the group. > > My password to log into Windows and my Microsoft account uses upper case > characters, lower case characters and digits. Using a Braille display’s > Perkins-style keyboard, how does one go about entering this combination of > characters at the Windows password prompt? > > I have tried using computer Braille, no go. I’ve tried to use the usual > U+Chord command to indicate that I’m about to enter an upper case character. > No go. I obviously can’t use either literary grade 1/2 at this juncture, > because in UEB and the old-style British Braille, the dots 3, 4, 5 and 6 > keystroke produces different symbols. > > Any suggestions very much appreciated. > > ================================================= > > My compliments and kindest regards > Gordon Smith: > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. > > This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid > printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! > > Contact: > > • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 > • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0) 7907 823971 > • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 > • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 > • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 > > ---------------------------------------- > ——
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