Category: accessible Devices
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!
Yes. You have to change it in the Braille settings within JAWS.
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 :)
thank you all so much for such quick replies, will change the settings now!
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.