Hi marry.
I don't know how I missed this email, but I somehow did.... Sorry about that!
If peter is fine with anyone contacting him, I will gladly pass along
feedback and suggestions for future development.
I tried going in to settings and then I think keyboard and disabling
autocorrect, but it's dimmed for some reason. SO I'm not sure if it's
an OS bug, but I suspect it is since sighted people appear to be
having this issue as well. I'm also running an HD 8, so I'm not sure
why you haven't received the September update yet. They have certainly
added braille commands in the latest update, see
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201829370
for a complete list.
That's a major flaw if you cannot pair with any other device other
than the Kindle, but you may be right. This presents problems for me,
unless I dedicate the VarioUltra or VarioConnect to the Kindle. I'm
not sure I'm prepared to do that. What display do you have?
Take care,
Scott
On 10/6/17, Mary Otten <motten53@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Scott,
I'm using a different display than you, so I don't know if this matters. I
have found that I have to do the pairing as you described if I have
connected my display to another device, such as my iPhone. If, however, I
forget the iPhone pairing and only pair with the fire, I can turn the
display off and back on and the pairing is fine. Even with the iPhone turned
totally off, as long as my display has been paired with that device, I can't
get it to reconnect with the fire unless I totally forget the other pairing.
I don't think I have the new braille commands. I only have the sort of
reading support that was introduced early last summer. What version of fire
OS do you have? I wonder if there is a way to turn off auto correct. That
might stop the jumping problem.I would be tempted to send bug reports
directly to Peter corn, rather than to the device Accessibility address,
just because the responses I have gotten from that address have been less
than wonderful. If you sent it directly to Peter, you know it would be going
to a good place. Do you have his address or do you need it? Maybe somebody
else has more information on bug reporting channels.
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 6, 2017, at 6:19 AM, Scott Davert <kc8pnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all.
It's possible that some of you may already be familiar with me from
AppleVis or Blindbargains. I currently live in Charlotte NC and work
for the state of NC.
Anyway, I'm now on the Kindle bandwagon and am finding some good and
bad with braille.
First, at least with my VarioConnect 32, each time I reboot the
Kindle, I need to have the VarioConnect pairing forgotten under
wireless>bluetooth and then repair it through VoiceView each time. Is
anyone finding this with other displays? Is there some sort of place
we can file bug reports?
The other issue I'm having, which I know isn't unituqe to me from what
I've read, is that each time I type something, either with the
BrailleBack for Kindle app or the native support with VoiceView,
autocorrect keeps coming up and taking me out of the text field. I'm
also finding that some of the navigation commands appear not to be
working. Over all, though, I find this to be a much better braille
experience than BrailleBack on Android, but not quite up to par with
iOS. Then again, Apple have been developing braille support since
2009, whereas, Amazon has been doing this since the spring, so I'm
quite optomistic in its ftuture!
Scott
