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ALVA Braille Display with JAWS

 

ALVA panel keys

Prog, Home, Cursor, Up, left, Right, Down

ALVA Braille in Word

Home with Down reads the status line "At 4.1cm Ln2 Col55"

Tab Right with Down

Shift with Tab Up with Left

Enter Left with Right

Read page by page in Word

Page down to get new page.

Switch between applications

Control with Escape, Escape

Move braille line to right and read application name on task bar.

Press Touch cursor to select application to go to.

Internet Explorer

Use Jaws cursor

Use links to read links

Use reformat page

Control with pageup changes to Jaws cursor and positions at top of page.

Control with pagedown gives a new page

JAWS settings for ALVA

Toggle six dot braille and eight dot braille

Press insert with 6

Choose Set Options, Braille options

Press Tab to the option.

OR

Press Braille cursor with touch cursor about first cell.

Dots seven and eight can determine one of the following:

None, Highlight, bold, underline, Italic (Highlight is default)

To make change

Press Insert with 6

Choose Set Options, Braille options

Press Tab to the option.

OR

Toggle between text and attributes

Press Braille cursor with touch cursor above second cell.

Toggle cursor from dots 78 to dot7 Prog with touch cursor above second cell.

PC cursor Plus on numpad OR touch cursor on cell

Any touch cell routes PC cursor.

Prog toggles the active cursor to move the braille display

 

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