Listers, It's arrived: my new tiny, 14 cell refreshable Braille display produced by HIMS. Nervous as I was ordering it from Sight and Sound in the UK, I feel I'm gonna love it! it's small and the cells are nice. I've already paired it with my iphone. And by the way, this Braille display can remember 5 different bluetooth devices to which one connects. It also has a USB connection.
I know it's going to be a steep learning curve and that I'm going to be asking lots of questions but I've already managed to read using Smart Beetle from Voice Dream Reader and ibooks. The pleasure of reading quietly is intense! I'm delighted. At present it seems that I have to keep my iphone or ipad unlocked in order to use my Smart Beetle. Is this the case in your experience too? Also, Smart Beetle can connect via bluetooth either as a Braille display or as a bluetooth keyboard emulator and it can also work in combo mode, i.e. you can have it connected as a Braille display and as a bluetooth keyboard for more functionality. I can navigate home screens using it, open and close applications, read text, I've written a text message using it, I can use the rotor. However, when in Mail, I couldn't find a way of deleting an email I didn't want to read and I was wondering whether there may be an equivalent of a swiping gesture that Braille display could imitate. I just wonder if you could share what else you can do with your refreshable Braille displays and iPhone? Many thanks for any suggestions Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
