That's exactly what I did. I set up a commander to mute Speech. I really
wonder why they didn't natively give us a command to do this aside from the
trackpad commander. What if you're like me, and don't have a track/touch
pad? I really don't think Apple thought that one through the greatest. LOL!
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From: "Aleeha Dudley" <blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Braille Navigation annoyances
Hi,
For the speech when moving between items, could you mute VoiceOver while
reading to solve this issue by ensuring that keyboard commander is on with
VO shift K and pressing right option d?
Second, I can duplicate the issue of routing keys not working, both on a
BrailleNote Apex BT 32 and a Brailliant BI 32. I don’t know what’s going on,
but it’s really annoying. Anyone who can help with this would be awesome.
HTH,
Aleeha
On Oct 14, 2016, at 12:06 PM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
I am currently using a braille display with my Mac Mini Late 2012 on El
Capitan.
I have a few questions, please.
First off, I am using contracted braille, and have disabled dot 7 8
braille. I’m noticing that when typing in a text field, be it in Text
Edit, Pages, Mail, wherever, it doesn’t matter at all, even though
contracted braille is enabled, I’m finding that the current word under the
cursor is getting expanded to computer braille. I’ve looked in the
Voiceover utility under the Braille category and automatic translation is
unchecked. That’s the only thing I can thing that would control this
behavior. Regardless, that isn’t working. Is there a way to turn that off,
so it contracts regardless?
Second of all is a much more aggravating problem by far and away!
When I am reading a document in Safari, or say somewhere with an html
element, like a web area in ITunes, or whatever, point is, it’s a web html
content area, Each paragraph if a seperet item as far as Voiceover is
concerned. I’m using DOM order, and I don’t have any desire to change
that. This is absolutely fine, but the problem lies in panning with the
display. Regardless if I’m using my big Alva Satelite 584 Pro, which is
my primary display, or I’m using my Pacmate BX Omni 20 cell while on the
go, I find that as soon as I pan the display to the right and it leaves
one item and moves to the next, Voiceover starts audibly, with Alex,
reading that next item. I know it’s simply doing that because of the fact
I transitioned from the previous item to another item. The issue is, it
really is very distracting when I’m in the heat of reading a really good
article. Then, I have to take my hands off the display, hit the control
key on the keyboard to shut up Alex, then go back to the display, and
continue. It really really breaks the flow of things. I don’t mind
Voiceover doing this normally, but there are times I’d rather be able to
pan, and even if I leave one item and move to another, I’d rather it
reflect that on the display, yes, but Voiceover not speak at all, if all I’m
doing is panning. It’s fine if one item takes more than one pan to
complete, so say on my 20 cell display, an item is over 20 characters. If
I pan past the 20th cell to the 21st cell of the item, that is fine. It’s
when I reach the end of the item, then try moving to the next item there
after that this problem is occuring.
The final question I have is regarding my routing keys on my display. I
don’t understand why, but even in Sierra, this is an issue. For some b
izarre reason, my routing keys are not working at all on my Alva Satelite
Pro 584. It’s the most weirdest thing! My PM20 display works fine.
Another friend of mine who also owns an Alva Satelite tried to reproduce
the problem, and he can as well. So clearly, something’s either broken or
not set by default. I didn’t think the routing keys had to be set.
So, say I’m editting a document, and I find a typo. I should be able to
press the router butting directly above the error to move my insertion
point to that character and fix the mistake. I can’t. When I try, it just
dings at me. This is both again on Sierra, as well as on El Capitan. It
works, as I said with my PM display, just not with the Alva. I’ve tried
both the top, and the bottom row of routing keys to no avale. I don’t
think these need to be mapped, as with the PM display plugged in, I went
to the VO Utility/Braille, then on the braille display tab, under Assign
commands, I don’t see those keys individually mapped. On the PM display,
they just work. So I don’t think this is a mapping issue.
When I go into the setup within the actual firmware itself of the Alva
display, the routing keys are not disabled. So, yeah… I’m totally
stumped.
I should add that on the Windows side of things on my Win XP machine with
JAWS 15, the routing keys work perfectly, so it’s definitely not a
hardware malfuntion.
Any help with these things would be appreciated. I suppose I could call
Accessibility, but the last time I did and asked them about anything
braille related, they didn’t have the slightest clue, and normally haven’t
other times as well that I called about braille. I guess they just are not
trained on anything braille related, which is a bloody crying shame!
Anyway, can anyone help with these things?
Chris.
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