Braille Sense OnHand
User Manual
ENGLISH MANUAL
For Software Version 7.0
(May, 2012)
When there are any manual updates, the readme files or appendices will be added to the manual CD and website.
HIMS Inc.
4616 W. Howard Lane, Ste 960 Austin, TX 78728
Phone: 888-520-4467
Fax: 512-837-2011
Email:
Safety Precaution
For your safety and protection ofthe Braille Sense OnHand, please read and abide by the following safety precautions.
- The input voltage of the AC adapter is 100V - 240V, and the output is DC 5V / 2A.
- When the Braille Sense OnHand is shipped, the battery may be packaged separate from the unit to avoid damage. When you use the Braille Sense OnHandfor the first time, you may need to open the package, remove the battery, and insert it into the battery slot at the rear panel of the unit. (See section 1, introduction, for more details on inserting the battery.) It is possible that the dealer or distributor from whom you purchased the Braille Sense OnHandhas already done this for you. The battery may not be fully charged when it is shipped. Before you use the Braille Sense OnHand, you should ensure the battery is fully charged.
- When you use the Braille Sense OnHand with the battery for the first time, the battery status may not be displayed accurately. To avoid this, leave the Braille Sense OnHandconnected to the AC adapter for about six hours with the unit turned on. If you want to use the Braille Sense OnHand immediately, you may use it while it is charging.
- If you want or need to remove the battery from the unit, power the unit off, and then remove the battery. If the unit is connected to AC power, before re-inserting the battery in to the unit, make certain that the power is off.
There is a risk of explosion if battery is replaced by an incorrect type. Please make certain to use only battery packs produced specifically for the Braille Sense OnHand by HIMS. Please dispose of used batteries according to the instructions.
- When you are using the Braille Sense OnHand on battery power, the status of the remaining battery power is announced when the battery charge is low. When the battery’s charge falls below 15 percent, connect the AC adapter to the unit for recharging. If the remaining battery charge drops to five percent, and the unit is not connected to the AC adapter, the Braille Sense OnHand shuts down one minute after the announcement of the battery’s status. The amount of battery life per charge varies depending on the options you have set and the number and type of tasks you are running.
- Your Braille Sense OnHand needs to be handled with care. The Braille Sense OnHand is a very delicate machine. Please handle the unit in a proper, careful manner. The Braille Sense OnHand is very sensitive to dust. Make sure to keep the Braille Sense OnHand away from dusty environments.
- The Braille cells are very sensitive, intricate parts. If the Braille cells are not working properly due to the presence of dust or for any other reason, please contact our repair center, or the dealer from whom you purchased the Braille Sense OnHand for support.
- You should register your Braille Sense OnHand in order to ensure further maintenance, service, and upgrade information. Please visit to register your information. If you have any trouble when registering your information, please contact the dealer from whom you purchased your Braille Sense OnHand for help.
- Do not take apart the Braille Sense OnHand yourself. Do not have anyone else who is not authorized by HIMS take apart the Braille Sense OnHand. If an unqualified person disassembles the unit, serious damage may occur to the Braille Sense OnHand. If an unauthorized person disassembles the Braille Sense OnHand, the unit is excluded from any free maintenance, and the warranty becomes void. If any liquid or external force damages the unit, it may also be excluded from free maintenance, even if the damage occurs during the warranty period.
- Do not leave your Braille Sense OnHand in closed or high temperature environments such as inside a car on a hot summer day, as the battery attached to the Braille Sense OnHand may be damaged or catch fire. Please do not let your Braille Sense OnHand remain in such environments for long periods of time.
- Thank you for using the Braille Sense OnHand. We value any comments or suggestions you have for our product. If you have any complaints or suggestions, please provide us with your comments on our website. We will improve our product based on your comments and suggestions.
- To prevent possible damage to your hearing, do not listen to audio at high volume levels for long periods.
- This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
Operation is subject to the following two conditions.
1)This device may not cause harmful interference, and
2)This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
This equipment can generate, use and radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.
If this equipment does cause harmful 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:
- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.
- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement:
This equipment complies with FCC RF radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. This equipment should be installed and operated with a minimum distance of 20 cm between the radiator and your body. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.
- Your Braille Sense OnHand packing box should contain the following items:
1)Braille Sense OnHand
2)Battery (2)
3)Carrying Bag
4)AC adapter
5)USB Cable
6)USB Gender
7)Earphone
8)User Manual (CD)
9)Braille User Manual (Hot Keys List)
10)External Battery Charger
11)External LCD display(Optional)
12)Protection Cover
II. How to use this manual
Before using the Braille Sense OnHand, you should read the entire manual to familiarize yourself with the functions of the Braille Sense OnHand. The Braille Sense OnHand contains many programs with a variety of functions, thus, reading the entire manual will allow you to operate the Braille Sense OnHand to its fullest potential.
In this manual you will see references to hot keys and shortcut keys. These keys refer to ways to access menus and functions quickly by using a combination of keystrokes. Please note that not all hot keys and shortcut keys will work from every location on the Braille Sense ONHAND. Some hot keys and shortcut keys are program specific, thus, they require that you be within a specific program for them to work.
This user manual notes how to press hot keys and shortcut keys in the following manner: Keys that are to be pressed at the same time are separated by a – (dash). When you see “Space-b (dots 1-2),” this means that you should press “Space” and dots 1 and 2 simultaneously.
If you are unable to find a solution to a problem within the manual, or if you need assistance with the Braille Sense ONHAND, please email us at . You may also visit us on the web at or, you can call us at 512-837-2000.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 What is the Braille Sense Onhand?
1.2 Hardware
1.2.1 Top Panel
1.2.2 Right Panel
1.2.3 The Left Panel
1.2.4 The Rear Panel
1.2.5 The Front Panel
1.3Hardware Specifications of the Braille Sense OnHand
1.4Memory on the Braille Sense OnHand
1.5How to use the carrying case and the protection cover
2. Basic Functions of the Braille Sense OnHand
2.1 How to Use the Commands
2.1.1 Messages
2.2 Concept of the Menu
2.2.1 Control Symbols on the Braille Sense OnHand
2.3 Using the Function Keys
2.4 The AC Power Supply and the Battery Pack for the Braille Sense OnHand
2.5 Basic Explanation of Disks, folders, and files
2.6 Controlling the Volume, Rate, and Pitch of TTS
2.6.1 Control the volume and speed in Media player
2.7 How to use the Voice and the Braille display
2.8 How to type the character
2.8.1 The ASCII table for a computer Braille input
2.8.2 Input/search for Control character
2.9 Multi Tasking
2.10 Switching Audio mode
2.11 Switching Key lock
2.12 Print Spool
2.13 One-Handed Mode
2.14 Using Typing Mode
2.15 Common Combination Keys
3. Global options
3.1 Option Menu Overview
3.2 Braille display
3.3 Braille Cursor
3.4 Eight Dot Mode
3.5 View/input the Grade of Braille
3.6 Braille Code
3.7 Computer Braille
3.8 Line break
3.9 Message Display Time
3.10 Language
3.11 Voice
3.12 Punctuation Level
3.13 Keyboard Echo
3.14 Capitalization alert
3.15 Numbers
3.16 Abbreviation
3.17 Voice Volume
3.18 Voice Rate
3.19 Voice Pitch
3.20 Sub Voice Rate
3.21 Main Volume
3.22 Scroll Voice
3.23 Flip LCD display
3.24 LCD Font Size
3.25 Printer Port
3.26 Print Paper Size
3.27 Audio alerts
3.28 Play Power On/Off Sound
3.29 Left Scroll Buttons
3.30 Right Scroll Buttons
3.31 Skip Empty Lines
3.32 Control Information
3.33 Hide passwords
3.34 Hot Key Information
3.35 Announce shortcut keys
3.36 Power Saving Mode
3.37 Power Saving Kick In
3.38 Check Today’s Schedule
3.39 One-Handed Mode
3.40 Automatic spell-check
3.41 Default Document
3.42 Automatically synchronize with time server
3.43 Progress indicator
3.44 Bluetooth
3.45 Wireless LAN
3.46 Mass-storage device mode
4. File Manager
4.1 Overview
4.1.1 Navigating the File List
4.1.2 Item (Folder or File) Selection Key
4.1.3 Cancel / Exit Key
4.2 Using File Manager Features in the File List
4.2.1 Selecting Disks
4.2.2 Getting in and Out of a Folder (Opening/Closing a Folder)
4.2.3 Opening a File
4.2.4 Send To
4.2.5 Copy / Move
4.2.6 Delete Files or Folders
4.2.7 Rename
4.2.8 New Document
4.2.9 New Folder
4.2.10 File Conversion
4.2.11 Select All
4.2.12 Search for File
4.2.13 Sort Files By
4.2.14 Set File Info
4.2.15 Display Only Files of Type
4.2.16 Zip
4.2.17 Unzip
4.2.18 Information
4.2.19 EML Viewer
4.3 Using the Address Window
4.3.1 Editing
4.3.2 Type in Path / File Name
4.3.3 Opening the History List
4.4 Network share function
4.4.1 Search for shared computers and add the network list.
4.4.2 Remove Remote folder registered
4.4 Hot Keys in the “File Manager”
5. Word Processor
5.1 File Menu
5.1.1 New
5.1.2 Open
5.1.3 Save
5.1.4 Save As
5.1.5 Saving password Protected Files
5.1.6 Close Current Document
5.1.7 Print
5.1.8 Settings
5.1.9 Exit
5.2 Edit Menu
5.2.1 Start Selection
5.2.2 Copy
5.2.3 Cut
5.2.4 Paste
5.2.5 Delete
5.2.6 Delete Blank Lines
5.2.7 Add to Clipboard
5.2.8 Clear Clipboard
5.2.9 Select All
5.2.10 Insert from File l
5.2.11 Insert Date
5.2.12 Insert Time
5.2.13 Changing Between Insert and Overwrite Mode
5.2.14 Check Spelling
5.2.15 Edit Language attribute
5.3 Go to Menu
5.3.1 Find
5.3.2 Find Again
5.3.3 Replace
5.3.4 Go to Location
5.3.5 Go to Previous Page
5.3.6 Go to Next Page
5.3.7 Set Mark
5.3.8 Go to Mark
5.3.9 Go to Previous Document
5.3.10 Go to Next Document
5.4 Read Menu
5.4.1 Read Selected Text
5.4.2 Read Beginning of Selected Text
5.4.3 Read from beginning to cursor
5.4.4 Read from Cursor to End
5.4.5 Auto Scroll
5.4.6 Read Current Sentence
5.4.7 Read Current Line
5.4.8 Read Current Word
5.4.9 Read Current Character
5.4.10 Read Status
5.5 Layout
5.5.1 Braille Document Layout
5.5.2 Print Document Layout
5.5.3 Braille Paragraph Layout
5.5.4 Print Paragraph Layout
5.6 Keys for Text Scrolling and Deleting
5.7 Cursor Location
5.8 Hot keys in the word processor:
6. Address Manager
6.1 What is the “Address Manager”?
6.2 Starting the Address Manager
6.3 Using “Add Address”
6.3.1 Adding an Address
6.3.2 Setting Add Address Fields
6.3.3 Using “Search Address” in “Add address”
6.4 Searching For an Address
6.4.1 Using “search address”
6.4.2 Setting Searching Address Fields
6.4.3 Using “Add Address” In “Search Address”
6.5 Backing up and restoring the address list
6.5.1 Backup Address List
6.5.2 Restore Address List
6.5.3 Set Backup Options
6.6 Commands in the Found Records
6.6.1 Find again
6.6.2 Opening a home page
6.6.3 Editing Addresses
6.6.4 Deleting Addresses
6.6.5 Printing addresses
6.6.6 Saving Addresses to a File
6.7 Importing and Exporting CSV
6.7.1 Import from CSV
6.7.2 Export to CSV
6.8 Synchronizing With Microsoft Outlook
6.9 Hot Keys in the Address Manager
7. Schedule Manager
7.1 Overview
7.2 Starting “Schedule Manager”
7.3 Set time and date
7.4 Adding a Schedule
7.4.1 Start date
7.4.2 Start time
7.4.3 End date
7.4.4 End time
7.4.5 Subject
7.4.6 Location
7.4.7 Memo
7.4.8 Alarm Time
7.4.9 Set a recurring Schedule
7.4.9.1 Daily
7.4.9.2 Weekly
7.4.9.3 Monthly
7.4.9.4 Yearly
7.4.10 Confirm
7.4.11 Cancel
7.5 Search Schedule
7.5.1 Searching with date
7.5.2 Searching with subject
7.6 Modify Schedule
7.7 Deleting a Schedule
7.8 Printing a Schedule
7.9 Saving Appointments as a File
7.10 Backing Up and Restoring Your Appointments
7.10.1 Backup Schedule
7.10.2 Restore Schedule
7.10.3 Set Backup Options
7.11 Set Alarm Options
7.11.1 Alarm Duration
7.11.2 Alarm Repeat Interval Time
7.11.3 Repetition Times
7.11.4 Confirm
7.11.5 Cancel
7.12 Synchronizing With Microsoft Outlook
7.13 Hot Keys for the Schedule Manager
8. E-mail
8.1 Executing E-mail and E-mail Account management
8.1.1 Executing e-mail
8.1.2 Managing e-mail account information
8.1.2.1 Add e-mail Account
8.1.2.2 Checking information for added accounts
8.1.2.3 Modifying an e-mail account
8.1.2.4 Deleting an E-mail Account
8.2 Receiving and Sending E-mail
8.2.1 Receiving E-mail
8.2.2 Move to account or mail box
8.2.3 Reading Received E-mail Messages
8.2.3.1 Subject Control
8.2.3.2 Date Control
8.2.3.3 Sender Control
8.2.3.4 CC Control
8.2.3.5 Message Control
8.2.3.6 Attachment Control
8.2.4 Writing e-mail
8.2.4.1 Attaching a File
8.2.4.2 Sending E-Mail to Multiple Recipients
8.2.4.3 Searching the Address List
8.2.4.4 Saving E-Mail to the Outbox
8.2.4.6 Sending the E-Mail in the "Outbox"
8.2.4.7 Setting Default E-mail account
8.3 Advanced Message features
8.3.1 Deleting E-mail
8.3.1.1 Deleting an e-mail
8.3.2 Reply and Reply All to a Received E-Mail.
8.3.3 Forwarding a Received E-Mail Message
8.3.4 Saving a Received E-mail as a File.
8.3.5 Printing E-Mail Messages
8.4 Additional features of E-mail
8.4.1 Find
8.4.2 Find Again
8.4.3 Move to Next Unread Message
8.4.4 Managing mail boxes and messages
8.4.4.2 Creating a Mailbox
8.4.4.4 Changing name of Mailbox
8.5 Using the Tools Menu
8.5.1 Set Path
8.5.1.1 Set the Save Attachments Path
8.5.1.2 Set the Send Attachments Path
8.5.1.3 Set the Disk in which to save mail
8.5.2 Set Options
8.5.3 Spam Settings
8.5.3.1 Add As Spam E-Mail
8.5.3.2 Modifying Spam Registration
8.5.3.3 Deleting Spam
8.6. Hot Keys for E-Mail
8.6.1 Hot Keys Used in the Inbox
8.6.2 Hot Keys for Sending E-Mail Including Reply, Forward, and saving e-mail to Outbox
8.6.3 Hot Keys for Reading/writing E-Mail Messages
9. Media Player
9.1 Using the Audio Buttons
9.1.1 Play/Pause Button
9.1.2 Next button and previous button
9.1.3 Record Button
9.1.4 Stop Button
9.1.5 Using the Audio buttons in file open dialog box
9.2 Braille Keyboard and Extended Keys
9.2.1 Playback Information Tab
9.2.2 Play List Tab
9.2.3 Hot Keys in the Play Information Tab and the Play List Tab
9.3 Control the volume and speed
9.4 How to Use the Media Player Menu
9.4.1 File
9.4.1.1 Open File
9.4.1.2 Open Folder
9.4.1.3 Add File
9.4.1.4 Add Folder
9.4.1.5 Save play list
9.4.1.6 Save as play list
9.4.1.7 Delete Item
9.4.1.8 Open URL
9.4.1.9 Exit
9.4.2 Play
9.4.2.1 Play
9.4.2.2 Previous Track
9.4.2.3 Next Track
9.4.2.4 Back 5th Tracks
9.4.2.5 Forward 5th Tracks
9.4.2.6 First Track
9.4.2.7 Last Track
9.4.2.8 Volume Up and Volume Down
9.4.2.9 Speed Up and Slow down
9.4.2.10 Pause
9.4.2.11 Stop
9.4.3 Record
9.4.3.1 Record/Playback Information Tab
9.4.3.2 Record
9.4.3.3 Play
9.4.3.4 Stop
9.4.3.5 Pause
9.4.3.6 Continue
9.4.3.7 Cancel
9.4.4 Position Menu
9.4.4.1 Mark Position
9.4.4.2 Delete Marked Position
9.4.4.3 Jump to Marked Position
9.4.4.4 Go to Time
9.4.4.5 Go To Percent
9.4.4.6 Set Start Point
9.4.4.7 Release Point
9.4.5 Mark
9.4.5.1 Set Mark
9.4.5.2 Move to Mark
9.4.5.3 Delete Mark
9.4.5.4 Mark Manager
9.4.6 Settings
9.4.6.1 Configuration Dialog Box
9.4.6.2 Playback Settings Dialog Box
9.4.6.3 Record Settings Dialog Box
9.4.6.4 Effect Settings Dialog Box
9.5 Additional features
9.5.1 Moving features using the cursor keys
9.6 Hot Keys in the Media Player
10. FM radio
10.1 Listening to FM radio via internal speakers
10.1.1 Control the volume
10.2 Frequency control
10.3 Add of the channel and move among channels
10.4 Recording FM radio sound
10.4.1 Changing record folder
10.5 Additional features
10.6 Hot Keys in the FM radio
11. Web Browser
11.1 File
11.1.1 Open URL
11.1.2 Open
11.1.3 Save As
11.1.4 Page Information
11.1.5 Exit
11.2 Read
11.2.1 Read from Beginning to Cursor
11.2.2 Read from Cursor to End
11.2.3 Auto Scroll
11.3 Edit
11.3.1 Start selection
11.3.2 Copy
11.3.3 Add to clipboard
11.3.4 Copy URL
11.3.5 Copy Link
11.4 Go To
11.4.1 Go to Home Page
11.4.2 Go to Previous Page
11.4.3 Go to Next Page
11.4.4 Go to Previous Heading
11.4.5 Go to Next Heading
11.4.6 Go to Previous/Next Text
11.4.7 Refresh
11.4.8 History