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"BACKSPACE", and "ENTER". When you are typing, you should place
your fingers on these 9 Perkins-style keys in the following manner:
Place your index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and pinky finger of your
left hand on the left four buttons. Then, place your index finger, middle
finger, ring finger, and pinky finger of your right hand on the right four
buttons. Finally, place both of your thumbs on the spacebar.
The button where you placed your left index finger corresponds with dot
one in Braille. The button that your left middle finger is on corresponds to
dot two, and the button under your left ring finger corresponds to dot three.
The button on which your left pinky finger is placed is the Backspace key.
The button under your right index finger corresponds with dot four in Braille.
The button under your right middle finger is dot five, and the button on
which your ring finger is placed corresponds with dot six in Braille. The
button on which your right pinky is placed is the Enter key. And, the long
bar shaped button under your thumbs is the spacebar.
On the same row as the Space bar are 4 rectangular function keys: two to
the left of the spacebar, and two to the right. Moving from left to right, the
key to the far left is the "F1" key, and the key to the right of it is the "F2" key.
The key to the right of the spacebar is the "F3" key, and the key on the far
right is the "F 4" key.
Below the keyboard is a 32 cell Braille display. Above the Braille display,
there are 32 small, oval-shaped buttons corresponding to each of the 32
Braille cells. These buttons are called cursor routing keys. When you are
editing documents, you can use these keys to route your cursor to the
character of the corresponding Braille cell. The cursor routing keys also
serve as shortcut keys for navigating lists and groups of fields in certain
places on the unit.
On each side of the Braille display are two capsule shaped keys. These are
the "UP" and "DOWN" scroll keys. The scroll keys are used to scroll the
Braille display through menus, fields, lists or text. You can use the scroll
keys to scroll by display length, paragraph, line, sentence, or character.
