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Instant Access to Braille

Quick Reference

Automatic Braille Advance

  • Space with dots 1,2,4,5,6 (er)
  • Faster - Next Thumb Key
  • Slower - Previous Thumb Key

Battery Power Level - space with O, P

Block Command - space with B

  • Top of block - T
  • Copy block - C
  • Paste block - P
  • Move block - M
  • Delete block - D

Braille on / off - space with Next Thumb Key

Cursor Movement

  • Top of document - space with dots 1,2,3
  • Bottom of document - space with dots 4,5,6
  • Next character - space with dot 6
  • Previous character - space with dot 3
  • (read current character - space with dots 3,6)
  • Next word - space with dot 5
  • Previous word - space with dot 2
  • (read current word - space with dots 2,5)
  • Next sentence - space with dot 4
  • Previous sentence - space

Delete

  • Character - backspace with dots 3,6
  • Word - backspace with dots 2,5
  • Sentence - backspace with dots 1,4

Find Command - space with F

  • Find next occurrence - space with N

Force a new braille page - space with P

Force a new ink print page

  • Space with 2,3,4,6 (the)
  • I
  • I
  • Space with P

Keyboard echo - space with O, K

  • f for off
  • s for spell
  • w for word
  • b for both

Listen to entire file (go command) space with G

Line spacing - space with 2,3,4,6 (the)

  • I
  • L
  • Spacebar to -line spacing currently...
  • D for double, or S for single

Main Menu - space with dots 1,2,3,4,5,6

Place Markers

  • Define - backspace with D
  • Jump to - space with J
  • Delete - jump to, then press backspace

Speech on / off - space with Previous Thumb Key

Spelling Checker - space with dots 1,6 (ch)

  • Ignore all - I
  • Skip once - space with dot 5
  • Add to dictionary - A
  • Correct - C
  • Suggestion list - S

Stop Speech - enter with backspace

Switch between files - space with dots 1,2,5,6 (ou)

  • Next file in history list - space with dots 5,6
  • Previous file in history list - space with dots 2,3

Voice Quality

  • Volume - enter with dot 1 or dot 4
  • Rate - enter with dot 3 or dot 6
  • Pitch - enter with dot 2 or dot 5

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