Hi all.
I was briefly playing around with connecting my NLS eReader, the Humanware one in case that matters, to my Mac as a braille display. From reading about braille on iOS I remember that dots one and four chord move like arrows.
However, on the desktop, if I did chord one, Voiceover would say "Macintosh HD", but the display would read "batteries widget". On the keyboard I would just use VO-right to get back to Mac HD and then probably the arrows alone if I wanted to move through the stuff on thedesktop.
If I wanted to get into the batteries widget, I'd interact with VO-down and move around in it with VO-arrows. But I realized I have no idea what the equivalent of down arrow would be, for example. I did a search and didn't readily see a guide.
is there one? If not, anybody have tips? What I mean is, not just commands, although if there's a handy list of those that would help, but stuff like this where you might be in a bit of an odd situation and need to navigate out of it/get the display to match what VO is saying. Also do you just mute Voiceover, if you're using it with a display?
I don't know how much I'll end up using it, but I can see some situations where it might come in handy, e.g. possibly editing audio/music, where I can use the keyboard but not get speech but rather Voiceover feedback on the display.Also if I'm reading with it it's easier to move the Mac's keyboard off to the side so the display is centered in front of me and the computer. Since I should be able to control everything with the Perkins-style keyboard, I may as well learn how to do it.
Thanks for any help!
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hi. i don't know if i missread your post, but you said you were using dot 4 to move right, and dot 1 to move left? were you using the space key with those? that's usually how i've found it to work. hold the space, and hit either dot key, and it should move. now also this depends a bit on the display, software, and screen reader's configuration. you could try turning on keyboard help with VO+k, and test each command out to see what it says. if it's much like my brailliant, then space + dot 1, or 4, moves left and right, and space + dot 3 and dot 6 move up and down. so you could test those out. Hope this helps a little.
Using space yeah.
Thanks! I did come across Apple's article with common commands, so that should help. But now I know how to do all of the basic movement, so thanks for that.