Hi, David,

is there a Braille command equivalent for the page-chooser flick?

Thanks
Teresa

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On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:56 PM, David Chittenden wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> To change pages, one at a time, go to the bottom of the display and find the 
> page chooser. It will state the page number. use a single-finger flick up or 
> down to change the page one page per flick. If you double-tap on it, your 
> pages will jump by a very large amount. You can also duble-tap and hold 
> (passthrough gesture) and then slide right or left for multiple page jumps in 
> either direction. Finally, a two finger flick down whilst the current page is 
> being read will start continuous reading. I suggest you start and stop at the 
> beginning or end ofa  page when using voice because each page is read 
> continuously as a single block of text.
> 
> 
> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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> On 18/04/2012, at 6:58, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Mark,
>> 
>> It'll be a few hours before I can try this. I'm a little hesitant, because I 
>> have a bit of a hard time navigating pdf files in iBooks. When I switch 
>> pages, there is often either no change or several pages are skipped. I may 
>> have a zoom setting adjusted wrong or something. Anyhow, I will try it. How 
>> do you navigate consistently in pdf files with IBooks? I've attempted to 
>> change horizontal pages with a three-finger swipe to the left or a Braille 
>> dots 1-3-5-chord.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Teresa
>> 
>> "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos
>> 
>> On Apr 17, 2012, at 11:43 AM, M. Taylor wrote:
>> 
>>> Theresa,
>>> 
>>> Pages is working for me so I'm truly curious as to what the problem may be.
>>> 
>>> Please try converting to PDF instead of Epub in Pages, OK?
>>> 
>>> Please let me know.  
>>> 
>>> I just converted a file to P
>>> df with complete success.
>>> 
>>> I eagerly await your result.
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, I'm getting bizarre results in Pages, too. First of all, it 
>>>> won't open brf files, so I pasted the file into a blank document. I saved 
>>>> it as an epub document, and noted the help tag that indicated it could be 
>>>> read in Ibooks. When I opened it in Ibooks, it indicated one page and no 
>>>> Braille was displayed.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm kind of thinking this may not be the way to go about this. Maybe 
>>>> reading in Safari or a Braille-specific app would work best. Perhaps the 
>>>> National Library Service will include it in their upcoming app for web 
>>>> braille and Bard.
>>>> 
>>>> If anyone else makes any headway, I'd still be greatly interested to hear 
>>>> how you fare. I'm going to take a bit of a break from attempting to 
>>>> reinvent the wheel here. :)
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Teresa
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