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2. Automatically Reconnect: checkbox (deselected by default) - if this option is
enabled, Mobile Accessibility will attempt to reconnect your phone with the Braille
device if the connection was dropped or after the mobile device starts up. It will
attempt the reconnection 30 seconds after the devices were disconnected or the end
of the start-up process.
3. Automatically Turn off Bluetooth: checkbox (deselected by default) - if this
option is enabled, Mobile Accessibility will automatically disable Bluetooth as soon as
the command to disable Braille off is performed to break the connection between the
Braille device and the mobile phone.
4. Speak Braille Status: check box (selected by default), enable Mobile
Accessibility to announce the connection status when activating / deactivating Braille.
Enabling Braille Support outside Mobile Accessibility
In order to have Braille support outside MA, it is important to:
1. Mobile Accessibility Screen reader service enabled under Accessibility settings.
Check user manual section
5.3.2 Enabling the system wide virtual keyboard
2. Mobile Accessibility Virtual keyboard must be enabled for system wide use.
Check User manual section
5.3.2 Enabling the system wide virtual keyboard
Please note, navigation, typing text and text review functionality should will not work if
MA screen reader and Virtual keyboard are not correctly set.
Quick Menu > Edit options
(Version 1.9)
The option is only available if the currently focussed control is an edit field. The
option allows you to perform editing options, like selection, copy, cut and paste.
Braille commands are available for performing edit action when using a braille display
with Mobile Accessibility. In specific the options are:
1. Select all, allow selecting the entire text in the edit field so to be able to copy or
cut or delete text.
2. Copy, allow copying the text to the clip board and retaining the text in he edit
field as well.
3. Cut, allow to cut the text to the clip board and also deletes the text from edit
field.
4. Paste, allow to paste the text from the clip board to the edit field.
Entering and Editing Text Using Braille
When focus lands on an edit control, Braille output automatically switches to edit
mode so that Mobile Accessibility displays the text cursor by raising dots 7 and 8. At
present, this tactile cursor is only available when 6- or 8-dot computer Braille is
selected. If there is an uppercase character at the cursor position, the dots will
