Hi, All refreshable braille displays have 8 dots. They are numbered down the left side of the cell, 1,2,3,7 and the right side, 4,5,6,8. Dots 7 and 8 are used in standard braille as the cursor indicator. In computer braille, dot 7 is used for capital letters in place of the dot 6, so a capital letter only takes one cell, so a capital A for example, would be dots 1 and 7. The "at sign" is normally dots 7 and 4 if you have 8 dot braille turned on. Those are just a couple examples. The National Braille Press has a nice little booklet called Computer Braille Made Easy that is very good if you want to truly learn computer braille. Also, there is an app for $0.99 called Braille Reference that has a list of computer braille symbols.
HTH, Richard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of CD Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 7:14 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Braille Displays For iPhone What does 8 dot omputer Braille do? I'm so used to basics sorry I sound ignorant. I know what computer is but what would this setting do. -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 6:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Braille Displays For iPhone Actually, Apple uses a time-sensitive grade II braille buffer which only allows approximately half a second. What this means is, if you hesitate for a half second, the grade II translator converts the buffer and enters the data. If you set braille to 8 dot computer braille, the buffer will deactivate and this translation aspect stops. In other words, if there is no text in the grade II buffer, you can braille as slowly as you wish. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 14/10/2012, at 3:20, "CD" <cd5...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Focus 14 is less money. The APH does glitch if you don't input > real fast from what I saw when I saw it and my friend who had it said > that is one of the glitches with it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Cheryl Ann Homiak > Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 6:44 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Braille Displays For iPhone > > Can you expand on this and say why you like the Focus 14 better? > > Thanks. > On Sat, 13 > Oct 2012, VaShaun Jones wrote: > >> I have and like the Focus verses the APH >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 13, 2012, at 1:24 AM, "CD" <cd5...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am looking at the Focus 14 and also the Refresha Braille. If >>> anyone has either of these could you write me privately and let me >>> know how you like them. I would really like to compare the two. I >>> have seen the Refresha Braille but haven't seen the Focus which I >>> know is less expensive. You can write me at cd5...@gmail.com >>> >>> Carla >>> >>> Thanks! >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, > Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
