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BrailleNote Apex BT USER GUIDE V9.0 HumanWare 1030 René-Lévesque, Drummondville, Québec, CANADA J2C 5W4. Telephone 1-888-723-7273. Fax (819) 471-4828 E-mail: [email protected] Sales: [email protected] World Wide Web: http://www.humanware.com User guide version 20091211 P/N NT433 BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide Susceptibility to Interference. There may be temporary degradation of the image when the BrailleNote Apex BT is subjected to a strong radio-frequency field, electro-static discharge or transient electrical noise. FCC Warning. This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and if not installed and used properly, in accordance with the manufacturer's instruction, may cause interference to radio and television reception. It has been type tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device in accordance with Subpart B of Part 15 of FCC Rules and Regulations, which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference in a residential installation. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: 1. Reorient the receiving antenna. 2. Relocate the equipment with respect to the receiver. 3. Move the equipment away from the receiver. 4. Plug the equipment into a different outlet so that the equipment and receiver are on different branch circuits. If necessary, the user should consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for additional suggestions. The user may find the booklet prepared by the Federal Communication Commission helpful: "How to Identify and Resolve Radio-TV Interference Problems". This booklet is available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Stock No. 004-000-00345-4. Shielded cables and certified Class B peripherals must be used on this product. Using unshielded cables or uncertified peripherals may result in this unit not complying with FCC Rules Part 15. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. Notice for Canada. This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment regulations. ii BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide HumanWare Addresses. HumanWare Corporate Headquarters 1030 René-Lévesque, Drummondville, Québec, CANADA Telephone: 1-888-723-7273 FAX: (819) 471-4828 E-mail: [email protected] Sales: [email protected] Web: www.humanware.com North America Telephone: (800) 722 3393 E-mail: [email protected] Support: [email protected] Europe Russell Smith House 2 Bullmatt Business Centre Northampton Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire NN10 6AR United Kingdom Telephone: 01933 415800 FAX: 01933 411209 E-mail: [email protected] Australia / Asia Suite 2, 7-11 Railway Street, PO Box 944, Baulkham Hills NSW 2153, Australia Telephone: (02) 9686 2600 FAX: (02) 9686 2855 E-mail: [email protected] New Zealand Phone +64 3 384 4555 Fax +64 3 384 4933 Email: [email protected] iii BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide Copyright Notice. Copyright © 2009 HumanWare, Drummondville, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the express written permission of HumanWare Limited. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this user guide is correct at the time of issue. Neither HumanWare Limited nor its agents assume responsibility for errors or omissions in this information. No liability is assumed for damages resulting from the use of this information. This product complies with the requirements of EMC Directive 89/336/EEC. Braille translation copyright © 1975-2005 Duxbury Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The patent for the touch cursor technology incorporated in the BrailleNote is owned by ALVA BV. The Text Adventure Games application in KeySoft uses a software module based upon the Jzip interpreter written by John D. Holder and redistributed according to the terms below: Original source code and programs are available from the Interactive Fiction Archive whose main page is http://www.ifarchive.org/ Jzip V2.1 Infocom/Inform Zcode Format Interpreter -------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2000 John D. Holder. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. iv BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Authorized European Union Representative: HumanWare Russell Smith House 2 Bullmatt Business Centre Northampton Road, Rushden Northamptonshire NN10 6AR United Kingdom phone: +44 (0) 1933 415 800 fax: +44 (0)1933 411 209 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.humanware.com v Contents 1 Getting Started. ...................................................................................... 1 1.1 Unpacking your BrailleNote. ................................................................................... 1 1.2 General Features. ...................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Software Features. .................................................................................................... 3 1.4 Orientation. ............................................................................................................... 4 1.5 Carry Case. ............................................................................................................... 5 1.6 Thumb Keys. ............................................................................................................ 5 1.7 Braille Display. ........................................................................................................ 6 1.8 Touch Cursor. ........................................................................................................... 6 1.9 Power Switch. .......................................................................................................... 6 1.10 Keyboard. ................................................................................................................. 7 1.11 Scroll Wheel. ............................................................................................................ 7 1.12 Resetting the BrailleNote BT. .................................................................................. 9 1.13 Speech. ..................................................................................................................... 9 1.14 Earphones. ................................................................................................................ 9 1.15 KeySoft Concepts................................................................................................... 10 1.16 The KeySoft Menus. .............................................................................................. 13 1.17 A First Experience. ................................................................................................. 14 1.18 General Functions. ................................................................................................. 17 1.19 Switching Between Tasks. ..................................................................................... 22 1.20 Copying and Pasting Text. ..................................................................................... 23 1.21 Help. ....................................................................................................................... 23 1.22 One-Handed Mode. ................................................................................................ 24 1.23 Saving before Switching off................................................................................... 24 1.24 Time and Date. ....................................................................................................... 25 1.25 User Settings. ......................................................................................................... 26 1.26 User Guide. ............................................................................................................ 27 1.27 Reviewing the Main Menu. .................................................................................... 29 1.28 Where to Now? ...................................................................................................... 30 2 BrailleNote Apex BT Hardware. ........................................................... 33 2.1 The Battery. ............................................................................................................ 33 2.2 Long Term Storage. ............................................................................................... 36 2.3 Connectors and sockets. ......................................................................................... 36 2.4 Secure Digital Cards. ............................................................................................. 38 2.5 USB Peripherals. .................................................................................................... 39 2.6 Current time. .......................................................................................................... 40 2.7 Visual Display. ....................................................................................................... 40 2.8 Braille Terminal for Screen Reader. ...................................................................... 45 2.9 Braille Display Care. .............................................................................................. 47 2.10 General Care. .......................................................................................................... 48 3 Word Processor. .................................................................................. 49 3.1 What is a Word Processor. ..................................................................................... 49 3.2 Braille and Text. ..................................................................................................... 50 vii 3.3 The KeyWord Menu. ............................................................................................. 50 3.4 Documents Folders and Drives. ............................................................................. 51 3.5 Opening a Document. ............................................................................................. 52 3.6 Naming a Document. ............................................................................................. 53 3.7 Creating a Document. ............................................................................................. 54 3.8 Reading a Document. ............................................................................................. 55 3.9 Review Commands. ............................................................................................... 59 3.10 The Cursor. ............................................................................................................. 60 3.11 Braille Display Modes. ........................................................................................... 62 3.12 Format Indicators. .................................................................................................. 63 3.13 Editing a Document. ............................................................................................... 68 3.14 Breaking your Document into Pages. ..................................................................... 71 3.15 Checking the Word Count and File name. ............................................................. 71 3.16 Searching a Document. .......................................................................................... 71 3.17 Checking the Cursor Position. ................................................................................ 74 3.18 Going to a Specified Position. ................................................................................ 74 3.19 Marking Places for Quick Reference. .................................................................... 74 3.20 The Spelling Checker. ............................................................................................ 76 3.21 Opening ASCII and Plain Braille format Documents. ........................................... 81 3.22 Large Documents. .................................................................................................. 83 3.23 Switching Between Documents. ............................................................................ 84 3.24 Setting the Default Working Language. ................................................................. 84 4 Book Reader. ....................................................................................... 87 4.1 Instant Braille Transcription. ................................................................................. 87 4.2 Reading the Sample Book. ..................................................................................... 87 4.3 Braille Display thumb key commands. .................................................................. 88 4.4 The Review Cursor. ............................................................................................... 89 4.5 Additional Reading Commands. ............................................................................ 89 4.6 Miscellaneous commands. ..................................................................................... 91 4.7 Review Book Opening Options. ............................................................................ 92 4.8 Reading Books Stored on Other Drives. ................................................................ 93 4.9 Exiting KeyBook. ................................................................................................... 95 4.10 Bookshare. .............................................................................................................. 95 4.11 DAISY Book Reader. ............................................................................................. 98 4.12 Audible.com Books. ............................................................................................. 105 4.13 NIMAS books. ..................................................................................................... 106 5 General Functions. ............................................................................ 107 5.1 Date. ..................................................................................................................... 108 5.2 Time Options. ....................................................................................................... 108 5.3 Grade of Braille for Keyboard Entry. .................................................................. 111 5.4 Braille Display Options. ....................................................................................... 111 5.5 Keyboard Settings. ............................................................................................... 116 5.6 Review Voice. ...................................................................................................... 118 5.7 Visual Display. ..................................................................................................... 122 5.8 Next Appointment. ............................................................................................... 122 5.9 Power and Battery Status. .................................................................................... 122 5.10 User Guide. .......................................................................................................... 122 5.11 Insertion. ............................................................................................................... 123 viii 5.12 Repeat and Spell. .................................................................................................. 124 5.13 Hear Punctuation. ................................................................................................. 124 5.14 Move to Another Task. ........................................................................................ 125 5.15 Front Thumb Keys On/Off. .................................................................................. 126 5.16 Scroll wheel On/Off. ............................................................................................ 126 5.17 Change Speech Volume Rate and Pitch. .............................................................. 126 5.18 UEB Symbols Table. ............................................................................................ 127 5.19 Editing at a Prompt............................................................................................... 128 6 Embossing and Printing Documents.................................................. 129 6.1 Setting Up the Embosser or Printer. ..................................................................... 129 6.2 Printing with USB. ............................................................................................... 129 6.3 Printing with Bluetooth. ....................................................................................... 130 6.4 Embossing or Printing a Document. .................................................................... 130 6.5 Embossing Options. ............................................................................................. 131 6.6 Embossing a Group of Documents. ..................................................................... 132 6.7 The Embosser Set-up List. ................................................................................... 132 6.8 Printing a Braille Document. ................................................................................ 135 6.9 Testing the Embosser. .......................................................................................... 136 6.10 The Printer Set-Up List. ....................................................................................... 137 6.11 Testing the Printer. ............................................................................................... 138 7 Advanced Word Processing. ............................................................. 139 7.1 Overview. ............................................................................................................. 139 7.2 Document Types. ................................................................................................. 140 7.3 Formatting a Braille Document. ........................................................................... 141 7.4 Formatting a Braille Document for Ink-printing. ................................................. 150 7.5 Block Commands. ................................................................................................ 157 7.6 Cursor Movement Modes. .................................................................................... 164 7.7 Moving to the Start of the Next Line. .................................................................. 165 7.8 Moving to the Next Tab. ...................................................................................... 165 7.9 Inserting the Time Date or Calculator Result. ..................................................... 166 7.10 Binding Spaces. .................................................................................................... 166 7.11 Pasting an Address. .............................................................................................. 167 7.12 Working with Documents on other Drives. ......................................................... 167 7.13 Saving a Document. ............................................................................................. 168 7.14 Quitting a Document. ........................................................................................... 169 7.15 Text Documents. .................................................................................................. 169 7.16 Computer Braille. ................................................................................................. 170 7.17 Formatting a Text Document. .............................................................................. 173 7.18 Creating Other Document Types. ........................................................................ 181 7.19 Initial Format Settings in a Document. ................................................................ 182 7.20 Extended Characters. ............................................................................................ 183 8 The Scientific Calculator. ................................................................... 189 8.1 Entering KeyPlus. ................................................................................................ 189 8.2 Entering a Calculation. ......................................................................................... 190 8.3 Basic Operations. ................................................................................................. 192 8.4 Statistical Operations. .......................................................................................... 197 8.5 Memory Operations. ............................................................................................ 207 ix 8.6 Scientific Operations. ........................................................................................... 208 8.7 Inserting a Result or a Calculation. ...................................................................... 212 9 Planner. ............................................................................................. 213 9.1 Entering the Planner. ............................................................................................ 213 9.2 The KeyPlan Menu. ............................................................................................. 213 9.3 Selecting a Date. ................................................................................................... 214 9.4 Scheduling Appointments. ................................................................................... 218 9.5 Recurring Appointments. ..................................................................................... 220 9.6 Reviewing the Appointments. .............................................................................. 225 9.7 Changing an Existing Appointment. .................................................................... 227 9.8 Selecting Another Date. ....................................................................................... 230 9.9 Alarms. ................................................................................................................. 230 9.10 Embossing and Printing. ...................................................................................... 233 10 Address List. ...................................................................................... 235 10.1 Adding an Address. .............................................................................................. 236 10.2 Looking Up an Address. ...................................................................................... 238 10.3 Changing a Field or Adding More Information. .................................................. 240 10.4 Deleting a Record. ................................................................................................ 241 10.5 Duplicating a Record. ........................................................................................... 241 10.6 Inserting an Address into a Document. ................................................................ 242 10.7 Embossing Addresses........................................................................................... 242 10.8 Printing Addresses. .............................................................................................. 244 10.9 Templates. ............................................................................................................ 244 10.10 Copying Addresses............................................................................................... 246 10.11 Selecting an Address List. .................................................................................... 249 10.12 Creating an Address List. ..................................................................................... 249 10.13 Using KeyList to Manipulate Databases. ............................................................. 251 11 E-mail. ................................................................................................ 253 11.1 What Can KeyMail Do. ........................................................................................ 253 11.2 KeyMail Menu. .................................................................................................... 254 11.3 Before You Start. ................................................................................................. 256 11.4 Correcting Input Errors. ....................................................................................... 256 11.5 Writing an E-mail Message. ................................................................................. 257 11.6 Email Signatures. ................................................................................................. 259 11.7 Attaching a file to an e-mail. ................................................................................ 260 11.8 Read E-mail. ......................................................................................................... 260 11.9 Connect to Send and Receive E-mail. .................................................................. 271 11.10 Setup Options. ...................................................................................................... 274 12 Web Browser. .................................................................................... 279 12.1 Connecting to the World Wide Web. ................................................................... 279 12.2 Changing to another part of KeySoft. .................................................................. 280 12.3 Logging on. .......................................................................................................... 281 12.4 Navigation. ........................................................................................................... 282 12.5 Moving from Page to Page or Site to Site. ........................................................... 286 12.6 Page Management. ............................................................................................... 286 12.7 Error status. .......................................................................................................... 288 x

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