Hey Alex
Great summary!
How can one get 9,1 and can it be done just with the Apex?
Peter
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From: Alex Hall <[email protected]
To: bn <[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:34:04 -0500
Subject: [Braillenote] ks9.1: initial thoughts
Hi all,
I have found a few things with 9.1:
1. The reset now seems to beep twice, once when the button is
pressed
and once when the unit actually resets.
2. During a reset, numbers appear on the right side of the
display. I
guess they are like a percentage of how far along the bn is in
the
booting process but am not sure.
3. It is true that, as was said in the presentation, no
"connection
configuration to use" prompt appears. However, this introduces a
rather large bug: if you have wifi off, or for some other reason
cannot get online, the bn will say "the page cannot be displayed"
instead of turning on wifi like it did in previous versions.
4. The enter-4-5-6 keystroke in terminal mode, used with iOS
devices
to pass the next keystroke directly to iOS instead of having it
interpreted by keysoft, works well. For example, hit
enter-4-5-6, then
hit space-h. Instead of help coming up, the Home button is
activated.
The only problem here is that this cannot be locked, so you must
press
it every time you want to use a keystroke which keysoft normally
interprets as a command. BTW, the scroll wheel is still not
active in
terminal mode with iOS.
5. The apex now acts as a braille terminal for jaws 12 on my
windows 7
64-bit machine, and the setup was easy. However, I cannot figure
out
how to use grade 2 entry; everything is in computer braille for
some
reason. This is likely my fault and not a bug, though. Oh, and
the
scroll wheel does indeed work, with the center button being
enter,
scrolling forward seeming to be arrowing down (and scrolling back
arrowing up), and I am not clear on the other four buttons. I
have not
yet figured out how to enter modifier keys or other commands.
6. Needless to say, the installation was great. I got the
license and
put it on a thumb drive. I went to the main menu and put in the
drive
and a prompt came up saying to perform a reset to install
licenses or
packages. After the reset, I saw that one license had been
installed.
I then repeated the process with the upgrade file itself. It
took
probably five minutes or so, with the bn telling me which step it
was
on and the percentage. The longest process was the extraction of
the
actual rom image, and that had no progress. My speech and
braille
preferences were used for this display. Once the installation
was done
and the machine had rebooted, it installed some documents and the
manual and it was done. Very slick!
7. The ability to action links and view tables in Word files is
really
handy and offers a significantly expanded range of files to the
bn,
whereas before we would have seen an exception message. I am
disappointed that docx support was not included, as that was
promised
for this upgrade back when the apex came out. Hopefully hw will
include this in a future release as a maintenance upgrade for 9.1
and
it will still be free, but who knows? That is not to say that I
am
disappointed in the upgrade; hw did a wonderful job on the
updated
keyword and it is nice to not have to worry about a document
crashing
the program just because there is a link in it.
--
Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
[email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
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