Does the iPad keyboard dock work with the iPhone? On 30 Jun 2010, at 16:42, Esther wrote:
> Hi Thuy, Donna, and Erik, > > Can you really do page up and page down on the Braille Display? I'd be > interested to see a list of the navigation capabilities of the Braille > devices. I'm writing up a summary of keyboard shortcuts for the Apple > Wireless Keyboard and iPad Keyboard Dock. These are mostly the movement and > selection commands you are familiar with, but none of the Fn key combinations > that work on the Macbook to page up or page down (Fn+Up or Down Arrow), or to > forward delete (Fn+Delete) work with these keyboards. This may be a > decision, since the iPad Keyboard Dock doesn't have the Fn key. What's > interesting is that the shortcut combination of Command-Space bar to switch > input language keyboards works with these keyboards. (This shortcut key > combination is in the list by Jacob Rus of Cocoa keybindings, and predates > the existence of Spotlight, which was also assigned this shortcut.) > http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html > The only thing is, if you want to switch to language with non-Roman letters, > such as Russian (cyrillic characters), Greek, or Japanese, you'd better set > your language rotor to "Default" if you want to hear these options announced. > (And I'm really happy there is a language rotor in iOS4.) > > Erik, you can't assign new keys under iOS4, so unless there's a way to remap > the key assignments on the Braille devices, I don't think you can customize > shortcut key combinations. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Jun 30, 2010, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi Thuy, >> >> Interesting. I did go into practice gestures, and was surprised to find >> that there weren't too many commands available. I wonder if this could be >> unique to the Alva. The basics were there, of course, navigate left/right, >> move to next item, touble-tap item, but I saw nothing for page-down. I'll >> check again, but maybe I'll drop Apple a quick note about this. >> Thanks, >> Donna >> On Jun 30, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Thuy wrote: >> >>> Hi Donna. I have been able to make this work with my eurobraille >>> esys12 and the iphone 3gs running ios4. To find out the key commands >>> from the braille display, go into the voiceover practise gesture area >>> and try out different combinations. Mine has two options for a lot of >>> functions including the page up and down. If you have input keys, >>> sometimes a chord will work? With mine I have a left joystick or I can >>> do it with the o-chord or ow-chord . Sometimes it changes the page, >>> but doesn't always refresh it on the display unless you move out of >>> the text area into the bookmark button and then back into the text >>> area, you might be lucky? Hope this helps? >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Thuy >>> >>> On 30/06/2010, Donna Goodin <goodi...@msu.edu> wrote: >>>> I haven't yet found a way to assign keys on the iphone. >>>> Donna >>>> On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:54 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, can you not manually assign a key to do this? Unfortunately I don't >>>>> have the IPhone 4 yet, though I am extraordinarily covetous and will >>>>> probably try to justify the expense in the next several months. It should >>>>> be possible one way or the other though, and as long as you are >>>>> interacting with the page that should take care of the focus issue. I'll >>>>> admit I'm super intrigued by the possibility of Ibooks. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>>> User support consultant, >>>>> Website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>>> Toll-free: 888-255-5194 >>>>> >>>>> On 2010-06-30, at 9:56 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Anyone had much luck with this? I'm using and Alva BC640. First, there >>>>>> doesn't seem to be a command for the 3-finger flick to simulate turning >>>>>> the page, so you have to use the page chooser. This works OK, except >>>>>> that once I've chosen a page, the only way I've found to get the braille >>>>>> display to the page content is to pick up my iphone and touch the text. >>>>>> Just wondering if anyone's found an easier way to do this. >>>>>> Best, >>>>>> Donna >>>>>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
