With regard to Braille in general:
First, understand definitively that any student who is allowed to become
more comfortable with speech than Braille is growing up illiterate. People
don't like to hear that, but it's true. People who are illiterate don't know
how to spell, paragraph or organize thoughts properly. We see this all over
the place on this list (at least I do, being a Braille reader). Speech has
its place, but in schools should be delayed until after the student has
become a good Braille reader. Of course, there are some who can't read
Braille. They have a very rough road to becoming literate; perhaps the
formatting options of JFW 3.3 might help a bit...
(I am not a member of, or supporter of, any blindness organization. Any
flames which do not also contain JFW-related material should be sent to me
alone.)
WRT the PowerBraille:
You can use it in Windows with just JFW. To use it in DOS you need
ScreenPower. ScreenPower came in three versions, two of which (ScreenPower
Braille and ScreenPower Integrated) support the PowerBraille. Check with
Blazie to see whether they have this. I may or may not have an old copy,
though I'm not sure whether it's the latest version.
You can tell JFW not to display an error if the Braille is turned off, but
this is not the default. The option is available in Config Manager when
editing default.jcf.
While you're in Config Manager, change the default Braille mode to Line. It
is initially set to Structured, which has severe problems in applications
that are not specifically scripted for it.
Let me know if I can be of any help.
Lee Maschmeyer
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