[bookport] Re: Suggestion for manual re: braille entry
- From: "Joni Colver" <july77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:52:44 -0500
I agree with Angie that the Braille keyboard seems very intuitive, but I
also had a bit of trouble grasping it from the manual.
To me the online manual is confusing because the layout is in a table and my
screen reader just reads a line of characters. This does not give me any
orientation necessarily on the Book Port.
I think what might help would be to describe the layout in words rather than
the table or in addition to the table. When I thought of the Book Port as
having three rows of six keys each when in the Braille keyboard orientation
it made more sense to me. The commands could be listed as the row furthest
from you from left to right, the middle row from left to right and the row
closest to you from left to right.
If any changes are made to the description in the manual it should probably
also be noted that only the left space key works for the chorded command.
Joni
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angie Matney" <matneyar@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:02 PM
Subject: [bookport] Suggestion for manual re: braille entry
Hello all,
Maybe a sentence could be added to the manual to help clarify how the
braille keys are labeled. After the instructions about how to turn the
bookport, something like the following might be added to the
description at an appropriate spot:
Thus, dots 1, 2, and 3 are *, A, and D respectively. I think this
would really help people understand the braille orientation. It seems
very intuitive to me now, but I had to contemplate it for a minute
when I first tried to use braille entry. I wanted to think of the
middle two columns as a braille cell. I know it says the top row make
the braille keys, but for some reason, this was not immediately
obvious to me either. I think maybe it's because the keys are round,
like over-sized braille dots. <grin>
Angie
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