So I suppose there are two issues in my case. One is the spacebar,
which, incidentally, I would not have to take the machine apart to fix;
the second is the crazy key entry I encountered when working in a
Braille document. Does anyone have any insights as to what the
Braillenote QT was doing and how I can trouble-shoot it if it happens
again? See below for details.
Rebecca
I have a BrailleNote QT and for the most part, use the Querty keyboard
for Braille entry, except of course when entering text in Braille
documents.
The spacebar fell off my Braille Note last week, I think partly due to
the placement of that card holder on the carry case, so today as I was
directing the choir, I was trying to operate it without the spacebar,
until I can ascertain whether putting a little glue on it would make the
warranty void. Anyway, it started operating very erratically, so that
only the eight keys a s d f j k l semicolon would work, but not
consistently to input letters, mostly for cursor movement, similar to
how a BT works. I kept having to type a Braille Z to exit to the keyword
menu and then a Braille E to get to the main menu, before being able to
re-enter my document again and hope it wouldn't keep happening. It
seemed to be triggered if, for example, during a search forward command
I keyed in a plus-sign or i-n-g character, something that must have sent
a conflicting message to the unit. During the Sunday morning service is
a lousy time to have to start trouble-shooting a computer, especially
because a press of the wrong thumb key, independent of the non-existent
space-bar, provoked a robotic proclamation of "speech on, braille off"
when I usually have speech turned off to avoid such interruptions.
I know this is a bizarre thing and I ask someone's patience to wade
through it and help, as I use the qt extensively and can't even imagine
how to solve this one.
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