With iOS, is it possible to copy text off the internet, paste it into a notes app of some kind, place the iOS device in your pocket or backpack and control it completely using braille only with speech and sounds shut off and read those notes off in public as in when giving a speech or reading the bible publically in church? also with braille only and iOS like iPod touch or iPad, is there a notes app that lets you jump to different sections of your notes so you can find stuff easier for reading in public speaking situations?
Hi everyone, I am new to this site and have a question for those of you who use an iphone with a braille display. My current notetaker, a braillenote, is old and I need to be buying a new notetaker soon. I'm wondering whether I should buy a blindness specific device such as a braillenote or braillesense, or whether I should get an iphone with a refreshable braille display. I'd mostly be using it for work, to take notes while I counsel my patients. I need it to be reliable, fast, and easy to go back and review my notes. Do any of you use it for heavy notetaking especially with braille input?
I'm just wondering how you go about reading Kindle books using a braille display.
I much prefer the experience on PC - for example, I can go to any random sentence and it'll show on the display. This doesn't seem to be the case on the iOS app. I'm still learning braille (nearly finished Grade 2) and if there's a symbol I don't recognise, I would like to go back and read that line on my phone but can't necessarily go back to it on the display.
Hello everyone,
So I forgot my charger for my Brailliant Bi 20X at my other house and I was wondering if I could use my MacBook charger until I return to my other house to get the charger. Will I do any permanent damage to the battery or device?
Thank you all for your help.
Hi All,
Yesterday, I purchased the MBraille keyboard for IOS. For the most part, it works but I can't figure out how to activate the buttons on most keyboards like go, done, or surch. For example, when I am in the app store, I need to type in an app name and tap surch. How do I do this using MBraille? THanks
I’ve been trying to access modifier keys on my braille display. I’ve figured out how to press them, but I can’t get the iPad to recognize a string. For example in safari I can’t use the shortcut command-L to go to the address bar. But I can press command.
How do I link the modifier key? I called Apple and they just sent me articles I already read.
Hi all,
I have now sussed out pages and can edit and format documents in pages using my Orbit reader. However, I need to be able to edit the MS word file which I export from Pages to dropbox so I decided to install the MS word App when prompted by dropbox to try and edit my word file in dropbox.
But I discovered that when I finally managed to open the doc in dropbox after typing one sentence dot 8 didn't seem to insert a new line when pressed.
I also found this in new docs that I create.
Hi all,
I have tried using the text file option in dropbox but could only type one line.
I therefore found the MS word app on IOS did exactly what I wanted to achieve.
However, how do I edit in a document ie type a sentence and go to a new line as dot 8 doesn't seem to work.
Any general tips on how to navigate and use the App would be great!
I wasn't sure if I should post this under the Apple TV specific forum or under this Braille specific forum; I guess both are equally valid. Anyway, I would love to use my NLS EReader on the Apple TV in my living room. It's the newest model of Apple TV; think it came out last year. In any case, it has the latest TV os installed, but no matter what I do, I can't get a Braille display to connect to it.
Hi all,
Does anyone have any tips on using the outlook app on an iphone 7 with orbit reader 20 how do you delete multiple messages at once, how do you add people to the BCC field as can only use the CC field to add one contact.
Also do any Braille uses think that the input cursor jumps more in outlook than in other mail apps when typing on a Braille Display has any of you managed to get round this or reported it to appleat all as it always seems to work when I ring apple.
Hi, all. I just installed Perky Duck on my MacBook Air M1, running Mac OS 13.4.1. when I begin to create a Braille document in Perky Duck, and I'm using the home row for Braille entry, nothing shows up on my Braille display. I'm using a Brailliant BI-40X. Perhaps I need to update to 13.5of Mac OS? My student says she can read what she is inputting on the Braille display. My Braille display shows a cursor moving, but there are no Braille dots. Thanks for any help since Perky Duck is free and is without support. The Help menu is also not navigable which is not good.
Hi. I have an iPhone 14 mini running iOS 17.2.1 with an NLS eReader from Zoomax for a braille display. I'm a lifelong Jaws user, and in Jaws you can navigate to headings or links or form fields by pressing a letter. I haven't been able to get the iPhone to do that, even though I've heard that that feature is available. Does anyone know how I can get my braille display to do this in web browsers? Thanks.
Does anyone know how to activate Siri with a braille display? I tried holding down space with h, but that doesn't work. Do I have to use assistive touch? I don't have the iPhone 6S or later, so can't use the "Hey Siri" command unless I'm connected to power.
I've got the latest version of the Kindle app on my iPhone. The only way to read a book seems to be to do a two-finger swipe down for continuous reading by Voiceover speech, and then to double tap anywhere on the screen to stop. What's being read does show up on the braille display, but I'm wondering if an older version of this app allows a person to scroll through the book with a braille display only. I want to be able to scroll manually, not automatically. In the version I have now, if I turn speech off, the book scrolls automatically far too fast.
You know how there is a Braille Keyboard Input for the iPhone and iPad? It's already built in.
Is there anything like that for Mac? Is there a way to type like that on Mac instead of having a External Braille Keyboard/Display?
I know about the Braille Writer App for Mac but I want to be able to type like that all the time, not just in one program.
Thanks
I recently got a new MacBook Pro with a Touch bar, I am having a difficult time figuring out how to connect my braille display.
I have a Vario Ultra Braille Display by BAUM. I had read that it was much easier to control the computer fully from the braille display using the PC as compared to using the Mac.
If anyone can be of assistance I would appreciate it. I am running VM Ware Fusion 10 and JAWS 17. I have not used a PC in sometime and am having a difficult time using it with VM Ware Fusion.
Hey there,
I have a Mac and a Mantis. How does the Mantis work when using VMWare fusion?
Does the keyboard and braille output transfer to the VM when in focus, or will it always go to Voiceover?
If the latter, is there a way to switch braille/keyboard input and output to the VM and the windows screen reader?
Ideally, I'd love to use both the braille display and keyboard with both mac and windows.
If I put this in the wrong section, let me know.
As I browse a document with the braille display using the panning buttons or any other key to navigate, it would be nice to have the possibility of instructing the braille cursor to move the keyboard cursor as you pan through the document, like other screen readers do.
hey yall,
using u2 & ipad-mini & sometimes zaggkeys portfolio bluetooth keyboard.
when i am hooked to the ipad & hit space-f to find something is there a way to
repeat that search without retyping the search term?
using the u2 alone i can just press space-f again & the last search term appears,
but that does not happen when the u2 is hooked to voiceover.
one apple support document skys vo-z will repeat the last command,
but i cannot get that to work either.