Creating new line on Brailliant BI X while using iOS Devices

By Chris, 23 May, 2023

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Braille on Apple Products

Hi, all. I don't think I have posted this info to the forum. I have contacted Humanware about this and suggested a workaround that one of my students and I discovered. The enter key on the Brailliant BI X series would routinely bring up the context menu on the iDevice. I would need to dismiss it with a double-tap gesture and then find the enter key on the on-screen keyboard, which may or may not be visible. Not handy, at all! We discovered that if we toggled the onscreen keyboard on (or off). with spacebar with dots 1 4 6, then we could successfully press the enter key. It didn't matter whether the onscreen keyboard was off or on. If it was toggled, then the enter key behaved after this. I am unsure if it behaved only for that application or beyond, but this has been a reliable workaround for me. Humanware had some multi-step process for getting this to work, but there were too many steps for me and for the sake of convenience. This toggle is much faster and easier to remember. Hope this is helpful to folks. Keep reporting to Humanware and Apple! .

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By Bingo Little on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 22:37

This is a very useful tip, thank you. i hadn't heard of this one before. There is another way, as follows: if you press space with dos 2-7 to emulate the option key, pressing dot 8 should then act as the enter key. You need to do this each time you want to insert a new line. This has worked reliably for me, though I know others say it's inconsistent.
I think the problem with all these work-arounds is that with IOS16.4.1A none of them worked. Dot 8 might as well not have been on the keyboard at all. at least 16.5 has advanced on that situation, but this bug has been around for a very long time now.