> Does the iPad keyboard dock work with the iPhone? No it doesn't fit.
Mike > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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