Braillepen 12

2017-05-17 Thread Ann Byrne
Does the Braillepen work only on the iPhone, or can you use it on an 
Androi phone as well???


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Re: braillepen 12 touch question

2014-05-10 Thread alia robinson
It helps. I use a mac and iphone. I am still not sure what to do. have it 
narrowed down a bit though now, thanks. 

Alia
On May 10, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Amy Harris  wrote:

> Hi Alia,
> 
> I just asked some questions here about the BraillePen 12 Touch a couple of 
> days ago.  I also emailed Larry Lewis, from Flying Blind, whose info has been 
> posted on this group a couple of times.  He is very helpful!!!  In my email 
> to him, one of the questions that I asked was whether the cursor routing keys 
> over each braille cell on the BraillePen 12 Touch had been made to work in 
> this latest IOS update.  Here is the portion of his reply which answers that 
> question.
> 
> "Thanks for the message. In the interest of transparency, you should know 
> that my company sells a number of Braille displays and we are the US importer 
> for the BraillePen. I'm familiar with all of the portable options. 
> Unfortunately, Apple did not get the Touch Cursor support implemented in the 
> latest iOS release despite the fact that they've had a BraillePenTouch for 
> approximately 6 months. They anticipate releasing the cursor routing support 
> in the next release. However, we're offering customers alternative firmware 
> which allows the BraillePenTouch to emulate another Braille protocol within 
> Voiceover that does provide the touch cursor support, so we do have a 
> workable cursor routing solution in the short-term. This solution does in 
> fact affect the JAWS support within the BraillePenTouch's initial firmware. 
> Again, this is a work-around that does quite a nice job for iOS users."
> 
> So, as I understand that reply, Larry's company can help get a BraillePen 
> Touch working by using a short-term work-around, but this work-around may 
> have the potential to affect how things might work with JAWS.  That's just my 
> personal interpretation of that response, mind you.  I also learned from 
> Larry that his company is selling the BraillePen Touch for $995, which is a 
> great price, as I've seen others selling it for $1099 and up.
> 
> I hope this helps in some way, as I'm currently doing the same research on 
> braille displays.

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Re: braillepen 12 touch question

2014-05-10 Thread Amy Harris
Hi Alia,

I just asked some questions here about the BraillePen 12 Touch a couple of 
days ago.  I also emailed Larry Lewis, from Flying Blind, whose info has 
been posted on this group a couple of times.  He is very helpful!!!  In my 
email to him, one of the questions that I asked was whether the cursor 
routing keys over each braille cell on the BraillePen 12 Touch had been 
made to work in this latest IOS update.  Here is the portion of his reply 
which answers that question.

"Thanks for the message. In the interest of transparency, you should know 
that my company sells a number of Braille displays and we are the US 
importer for the BraillePen. I’m familiar with all of the portable options. 
Unfortunately, Apple did not get the Touch Cursor support implemented in 
the latest iOS release despite the fact that they’ve had a BraillePenTouch 
for approximately 6 months. They anticipate releasing the cursor routing 
support in the next release. However, we’re offering customers alternative 
firmware which allows the BraillePenTouch to emulate another Braille 
protocol within Voiceover that does provide the touch cursor support, so we 
do have a workable cursor routing solution in the short-term. This solution 
does in fact affect the JAWS support within the BraillePenTouch’s initial 
firmware. Again, this is a work-around that does quite a nice job for iOS 
users."


So, as I understand that reply, Larry's company can help get a BraillePen 
Touch working by using a short-term work-around, but this work-around may 
have the potential to affect how things might work with JAWS.  That's just 
my personal interpretation of that response, mind you.  I also learned from 
Larry that his company is selling the BraillePen Touch for $995, which is a 
great price, as I've seen others selling it for $1099 and up.


I hope this helps in some way, as I'm currently doing the same research on 
braille displays.


Amy



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braillepen 12 touch question

2014-05-10 Thread alia robinson
am investigating braille displays, and was wondering about the 
braillepen 12 touch. I think I remember someone saying the routing keys didn't 
work with voiceover? is this true or is there some work around. 

Alia

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RE: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-05 Thread Amy Harris
Hi all, and thanks for the opinions I've gotten so far.  Stacey, thanks for
letting me know that the 12 doesn't have any form of routing keys at all.
That makes the decision easy.  I'll get the BraillePen 12 Touch.  Are there
any problems that anyone has run into with either the 12, or, if anyone has
used it, with the 12 Touch?

Thanks all. :-)

Amy

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Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-05 Thread Stacey Robinson
Amy,
The braillepen 12 doesn't have cursor routing keys.
Just a joystick.

Blessings,
Stacey Robinson
mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net

On May 3, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Amy Harris wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Has anyone used the BraillePen 12 Touch, the one with the routing touch areas 
> above each braille cell?  I'd like to know whether it is worth buying one to 
> work with my iDevices?
> 
> Also, I think the answer is no, but just to double-check, does the BraillePen 
> 12, not the new Touch version but the regular version, have cursor buttons 
> above its braille cells, or do you use buttons/joysticks to move the cursor 
> on that model?  I'd like to be able to push a button over the braille cell, 
> or, in the case of the BraillePen 12 Touch, touch an area over the braille 
> cell, to place my cursor there.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts/opinions! :-)
> 
> Amy
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Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-05 Thread Stephanie
I have the braille pen, but not the touch. It's quite good, although i miss the 
routing buttons. 
Steph

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Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014 3:04 am
Subject: BraillePen 12 Touch

>
>
> Hi all.
> 
> 
> Has anyone used the BraillePen 12 Touch, the one with the routing touch areas 
> above each braille cell?  I'd like to know whether it is worth buying one to 
> work with my iDevices?
> 
> 
> Also, I think the answer is no, but just to double-check, does the BraillePen 
> 12, not the new Touch version but the regular version, have cursor buttons 
> above its braille cells, or do you use buttons/joysticks to move the cursor 
> on that model?  I'd like to be able to push a button over the braille cell, 
> or, in the case of the BraillePen 12 Touch, touch an area over the braille 
> cell, to place my cursor there.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts/opinions! :-)
> 
> 
> Amy
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Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-04 Thread brian albriton
Thanks Amy. It's good to know there is a workaround for this. I am very happy 
with my Braille Penn. I've had it for a couple of years now. You can't beat the 
price. It's small and portable. I can even carry it in the pocket of my dress 
slacks. I hasten to add, that you can't put anything else in that pocket grin! 
Larry Lewis is indeed one helpful guy

> On May 3, 2014, at 6:07 PM, "Amy Harris"  wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply Brian.  I did contact the vendor.  They actually say 
> that you can set the BraillePen Touch up as a different braille device and it 
> works.  They say that’s a temporary work-around, but that it works for now, 
> and that Apple has had the new BraillePen Touch for 6 months now and the 
> “driver” update should be coming out soon in IOS.  I was just wondering 
> whether anyone here had used the Touch, and what the opinions were?  If no 
> one has used the touch, what are some opinions on the regular BraillePen 12?  
> BTW, I got the info about installing the BraillePen touch as a different 
> device from Larry Lewis, so you guys can contact him to get further info on 
> that if any of you have a Touch and want to know what device to install it 
> as.  You can get his contact info at:
>  
> www.Flying-Blind.com
>  
> He was very helpful to me, and he’s who I’ll be buying from if/when I buy.
>  
> Amy
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RE: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-03 Thread Amy Harris
Thanks for the reply Brian.  I did contact the vendor.  They actually say that 
you can set the BraillePen Touch up as a different braille device and it works. 
 They say that’s a temporary work-around, but that it works for now, and that 
Apple has had the new BraillePen Touch for 6 months now and the “driver” update 
should be coming out soon in IOS.  I was just wondering whether anyone here had 
used the Touch, and what the opinions were?  If no one has used the touch, what 
are some opinions on the regular BraillePen 12?  BTW, I got the info about 
installing the BraillePen touch as a different device from Larry Lewis, so you 
guys can contact him to get further info on that if any of you have a Touch and 
want to know what device to install it as.  You can get his contact info at:

 

www.Flying-Blind.com <http://www.Flying-Blind.com> 

 

He was very helpful to me, and he’s who I’ll be buying from if/when I buy.

 

Amy

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Re: BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-03 Thread brian albriton
 As of a couple months ago, the braille pen touch did not work with IOS. This 
was supposed to change at some point. I have the regular braille pen and it has 
no routing buttons.  contact the vendor about the braille pen touch.  All the 
best, Brian 
 

> On May 3, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Amy Harris  wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> Has anyone used the BraillePen 12 Touch, the one with the routing touch areas 
> above each braille cell?  I'd like to know whether it is worth buying one to 
> work with my iDevices?
> 
> Also, I think the answer is no, but just to double-check, does the BraillePen 
> 12, not the new Touch version but the regular version, have cursor buttons 
> above its braille cells, or do you use buttons/joysticks to move the cursor 
> on that model?  I'd like to be able to push a button over the braille cell, 
> or, in the case of the BraillePen 12 Touch, touch an area over the braille 
> cell, to place my cursor there.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts/opinions! :-)
> 
> Amy
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BraillePen 12 Touch

2014-05-03 Thread Amy Harris
Hi all.

Has anyone used the BraillePen 12 Touch, the one with the routing touch 
areas above each braille cell?  I'd like to know whether it is worth buying 
one to work with my iDevices?

Also, I think the answer is no, but just to double-check, does the 
BraillePen 12, not the new Touch version but the regular version, have 
cursor buttons above its braille cells, or do you use buttons/joysticks to 
move the cursor on that model?  I'd like to be able to push a button over 
the braille cell, or, in the case of the BraillePen 12 Touch, touch an area 
over the braille cell, to place my cursor there.

Thanks for any thoughts/opinions! :-)

Amy

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