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Over the next couple of days, this Braille display will move into my home. For almost thirty years, I've come back to Help Tech displays time and again, despite trying out other display vendors' products in the interim as well. But because of their quality and endurance, I keep returning to these displays, and am proud to add the Activator to the list of Braille displays I own, or owned.helptech.eu/braille-displays-a…

Activator, the new Braille display with QWERTY keyboard

Activator Braille display with a laptop-sized QWERTY keyboard, SmartDock and iOS app. It's time for a Braille display that offers you completely new possibilities.
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Marco Zehe

@ysotomayor @alexhall And especially now that all Braille notetakers were basically sherlocked by Apple's Braille Access feature in the 26 versions. But Help Tech have combined the local notetaking very cleverly with their all-new iOS app to ease file transfer and such. Reading a BRF or BRL file on the device is still nicer than in any app on the iPhone that constantly flips pages.
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Marco Zehe

@pixelate I own an Actilino, too, and the general rule of thumb with the Active Tactile Control in these displays is that you have to play around with the ATC sensitivity and the dot firmness, but it is definitely possible to tailor it to one's Braille reading habits. Took me a few tries to get my settings just right, too. But since then, absolutely loving it.
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Marco Zehe

@pixelate Sorry to say that, but I'm not at all surprised. I owned a Focus 40 5th generation a few years back, and had to send it in for repair three times during the two year warranty period common in the EU. The only Braille display I ever had to do that with. Even the more plasticky fourth generation lasted longer, even though it was the noisy one.
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Marco Zehe

@pixelate Are those the ones based on the HumanWare Brailliant BI 20 X? Or are these different beasts? The HumanWare displays have a nice crisp feel to the Braille, but the rest feels rather cheap to me, and the keyboard of the BI 20 X fell over easily when I put it through its paces. It often lost dots while brailling quickly, and the keys felt rather wobbly over-all.
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Marco Zehe

@vol4life8657 The first thing I did whenever I installed JAWS or NVDA was to switch to the laptop layout and use the Caps lock key in addition to the Insert key. So no matter what keyboard I have in front of me, I can use Caps Lock as the NVDA or JAWS keys. I no longer use Windows nowadays, but the principle is the same for VoiceOver on the Mac. Or iOS for that matter.
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