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Joystick Right
Push the joystick horizontally, so it bends towards the right
Joystick Up
Push the joystick horizontally, so it bends away from you
Joystick Down
Push the joystick horizontally, so it bends towards you
Joystick Enter
Push the joystick, with your finger on the top, straight down towards
the BraillePen12.
These keystrokes perform the following actions:
Joystick Left
Move the cursor left one character or one tab or menu item
Joystick Right
Move the cursor right one character or one tab or menu item
Joystick Up
Move the cursor up one line or one menu item
Joystick Down
Move the cursor down one line or one menu item
Joystick Enter
Enter: confirm or activate a selection.
In some software you will use,
Joystick Enter
can't be used to end a paragraph in text;
for that keystroke you might need to use the keyboard-based Enter, which is usually
space
+ control
. Check the keystrokes for your software to make sure.
Moving the Cursor in your Applications
BraillePen 12 Touch makes text navigation efficient and convenient. You have three methods
with which you can control text on your BraillePen 12 Touch braille display:
1. Pan keys
2. Rotor settings (with iOS devices)
3. ActiveTouch Cursor Routing (BP 12 Touch only)
Although BraillePen 12 Touch is so compact and easy to work with, you can further improve
your text navigation by using ActiveTouch Cursor Routing. The system is based on a 12-
channel Touch Sensor and does not require any physical routing keys.
All you have to do is find the character on the braille dislplay that you would like to bring the
cursor to, slide you finger towards the top of the braille cell and touch the sensor set in the
ActiveTouch Sensor plate. You may feel a subtle vibration indicating that the cursor (dots 7
and 8) has been routed and you will start feeling the cursor blinking under your finger.
The time needed to have your finger touch the sensor has been optimized to avoid accidental
cursor routing and at the same time to ensure there are no delays in reading.
When you continue scrolling text using the Pan keys, the cursor stays put at the position you
have routed it to. But once you wish to bring it to a new character, slide your finger up to
touch the sensor and the cursor will be brought to its new location.
To activate the cursor routing indicator, go to menu (
see BraillePen 12 Touch Menu
section
). Using the Joystick arrow down to Vibrate. Once you have found the setting you
want to change, press Enter (Space + Control). You can select off, or you can incrementally
change the duration of the vibration by 10 starting at 10 ms up to 200 ms. You make the
selection by pushing the Joystick up or down. Press Enter again (Space + Control) to confirm
the change.
One other option related to Cursor Routing that the user can adjust is the Cursor Delay.
Arrow down to Cursory Delay option in the menu and press Enter (Space + Control). This
setting changes the sensitivity of the cursor sensors. The lower the value the shorter the user
needs to be touching the sensors to route the cursor. The available values are from 0 to 9.
Once you're done, arrow down to Exit and press Joystick Down to exit the menu.
