# Pacmate braille display

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by Kat_in_aus (Generic Zoner) on Friday, 25-May-2012 7:49:15

Hi Guys!
I'm just wandering if you guys could help me here.
I have ony recently gone blind and am fluent in grade 1 braille and can read grade 2 VERY slowly.
i'm coming up to the end of semester and have to do 4x15 minute presentations in the next week.
A friend has lent me her pacmate braille display to use to read my presentation on while i deliver it.
I have the braille display working on my computer with JAWS i was just wandering if anyone knew if i could get it to read in grade 1 (uncontracted) braile as opposed to the grade 2 braille it currently reads?
thanks guys!

## Post 2 by Dirty Little Oar (I'd rather be rowing.) on Friday, 25-May-2012 11:47:03

Yes. You have to change it in the Braille settings within JAWS.

## Post 3 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Friday, 25-May-2012 12:38:32

That will end up being Computer Braille, though. So most the letters and everything will be the same, but punctuation is not. And dot 7 in computer Braille will indicate a capital letter, dot 7 on the same letter. Grade I is the old Braille which I guess they must use to start teaching with, just single characters except that the capital is the dot 6 but all punctuation symbols are Grade II-ish.
So here is the symbols in Computer Braille you will want to know and blah to the system for not letting me insert a table, so they're in a list. So with your reader, if it has a single letter to jump from list item to list item, you can go from each one and skip the ones you won't need. Couldn't do this if I didn't have the day off from work :)

## Post 4 by Kat_in_aus (Generic Zoner) on Saturday, 26-May-2012 3:44:12

thank you all so much for such quick replies, will change the settings now!

## Post 5 by Dirty Little Oar (I'd rather be rowing.) on Tuesday, 29-May-2012 9:02:43

Doesn't have to be 8 dot computer Braille. There's a JAWS Braille setting to use 6 dot Braille. I use it all the time.