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Question from a friend regarding Focus 14 braille display
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Nancy Shackelford
I just purchased a Focus 14 braille display. It’s made by
Freedom Scientific. I realize that there are only 14 cells. So when I’m trying to read the title of a music file in a flash drive, I can only see the first part of the file. How can I see the rest of the file? For example I see the artist, so where is the downarrow button to see the title? And where can I get a manual to learn this unit? It has only 14 curser keys. The keys are, a space bar, then left, 1 2 3 and back. Then 4 5 6 and I think it’s enter. Then on the top of the unit on the right and left side are what I think are up and down arrows. But they take me to the next file, instead of reading the rest of the line. When I set it up with my Apple Mac Mini, I set up the input and output to 6 dot contracted braille. To the left and right of the 14 curser buttons is are two round buttons, one left of curser buttons and one right of the 14 curser buttons, but they don’t do anything. In front of the display are 8 keys. This has a Perkins style keyboard. Hope this helps. Thanks in advance. -- Nancy Shackelford --Walk On Faith And Trust In Love - Michael Reid--
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Pablo Morales
Hi Nancy,
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You can find the manual of the Focus 14 on the Freedomscientific.com page. This device is called Focus 14 because it has only 14 cells. I think that the following model is the Focus 40 and it is which I have. If your device is new, you can return it to Freedomscientific and might consider other choices with more cells. However, the price is also going to increase exponentially with the numbers of braille cells. Thanks,
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From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Nancy Shackelford Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 11:21 AM To: nance62lady@gmail.com Subject: [TechTalk] Question from a friend regarding Focus 14 braille display I just purchased a Focus 14 braille display. It’s made by Freedom Scientific. I realize that there are only 14 cells. So when I’m trying to read the title of a music file in a flash drive, I can only see the first part of the file. How can I see the rest of the file? For example I see the artist, so where is the downarrow button to see the title? And where can I get a manual to learn this unit? It has only 14 curser keys. The keys are, a space bar, then left, 1 2 3 and back. Then 4 5 6 and I think it’s enter. Then on the top of the unit on the right and left side are what I think are up and down arrows. But they take me to the next file, instead of reading the rest of the line. When I set it up with my Apple Mac Mini, I set up the input and output to 6 dot contracted braille. To the left and right of the 14 curser buttons is are two round buttons, one left of curser buttons and one right of the 14 curser buttons, but they don’t do anything. In front of the display are 8 keys. This has a Perkins style keyboard. Hope this helps. Thanks in advance. -- Nancy Shackelford --Walk On Faith And Trust In Love - Michael Reid--
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Nancy Shackelford
Thanks for telling me about the manual. He definitely understands
about having only 14 cells, but he can't find to go down and read the next part of the line. Thanks, Nance -- Nancy Shackelford --Walk On Faith And Trust In Love - Michael Reid--
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