Help with focus 14 blue display?

Category: accessible Devices

Post 1 by nj (Newborn Zoner) on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 22:38:47

I have a 1 month demo of a focus 14 blue, and found out after I received it that the organization
had "issues pairing it with their computer."

In reality I am able to pair it to any device (windows 10, windows 7, android) but I cannot get any
braille output at all. I know it is on and pairing because the perkins keyboard works to control the
devices I am connected to. But I cannot get braille from the internal menus when the device isn't
connected to anything, or from NVDA, or from JAWS 16, or from Brailleback. I did install the
drivers from freedom scientific's site.

I tried to toggle display test mode on to see if anything would happen, and nothing again. No
braille at all.

Is there anything that isn't a hardware issue that might be causing no braille output, or is this
device doomed and I should just send it back?

Post 2 by BigDogDaddy (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Friday, 14-Oct-2016 17:06:48

this is a hardware issue. I've unfortunately seen this a half dozen times or so with the 14 and I've not found a fix short of a repair by FS.

Post 3 by nj (Newborn Zoner) on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 8:32:09

What I feared. Thanks for letting me know.