Welcome to Said City Podcast, the podcast for the world's largest exhibition for blind and visually impaired assistive technology. Recording of the exhibit presentation 01072 from Wednesday, May 21st at 1:00 PM. The Monarch and New Era and Braille and tectile graphics. Speaker Andrew Flattress, Exhibitor Humanware. Okay, let's get slight. So good afternoon everyone. Welcome to this webinar on the Monarch, a new era in Braille and tactile graphit. My name's Andrew Flatress. I am the Braille product manager at Humanware. I've been with Humware for over 22 years, watched in various different departments and very much passionate about Braille. I'm an advocate of Braille in many different groups. And welcome to this webinar. We gonna talk about the why?Why did humanware create monarch?That's a really important question that we ask ourselves when we creating products is why are we trying to do this?Then we'll talk about the what what exactly is monarch, how it's being done. I'm gonna touch base on the eBrow, which some of you mouth heard about this is a new file format that's being created and then I'll finish off with a demo. And then after demonstration, we can open up the floor for any questions that you may have. So let's talk about the wife first of all and this may occur to you or some of these may occur to some of you and your students. But let's take us back into those classroom moments where students receive materials bar later than there side to classmates. This This differently happens quite a lot of times. Where students just don't have the materials on in time and therefore, they have to learn something else or sit other back of the classroom. This is quite a common issue that still happens today. We then have a look at the increase and expenses of long production times to produce textbooks and the curriculum. So production of braille books tatographics is expensive. It's also. Time continuing. It takes a long, long time to create this, which a course affects the materials arriving later for that student. Limited access to tattographics. We believe tattographics is equally important as braille literacy. Tattographic is becoming. Well, tattographic is very powerful. You melt heard of the message of thousand. 1000 picture speaks a 1000 words or one picture speaks a 1000 words should I say, but that doesn't betray very well for someone who's visioning paired of line. And And as we start move intowards textbooks, magazines, newspapers, it's very much focused around images and those images are not in a tactile shape perform. There's a lot of information that those students are missing they cause the tactographic isn't displayed creatly or it's an image that's not converted to a tactographic. So we'll talk about that and I'll showcase some of how we can access more tactographics. There's the lack of spatial understanding or formating in documents. In a traditionally 50 years this year we've been celebrating. Single line displays, single refreshable brow lines. And with the single line displays, it doesn't give you a good understanding. Spatially that's why many line students would potentially go for a brow paper, because it gives you the space your understanding of what a paragraph is, what center is, table forms. Now the lot of that that is missing when you're displaying that in a single line display. We then talk about the complex workflows in Steam subjects, you know, your science, maths, where it becomes very complex to tray information to that student. And then lastly, is the poor imprompture learning options, which again is a popular one that does happen very variably, where the teacher decides to change a particular subject. So whether you're supporting a student, you may. Prepared all of the material and advance, which is fantastic, but unfortunately, then the teacher then decides to change the lesson and you don't have anything to prepare in that instant. So they again, the student is is not able to participate in that lesson fully. Let's talk about the watts. So monarch, it is a connected tablet and it's a tactile display with equal distant pins. It's very different to. Your traditional singular line display technology. It can display 32 brao characters wide by 10 lines. The 10 lines of brao all in this one display. It also has a touch sensor for gestures and touch manipulations. So when we create in documents or your reading documents, you'll be able to use a touch sensor to move your cursor. Traditional single line displays have touch cursor routed buttons. Obviously, with the monarch, we don't have any physical buttons on the display. So the way that would mimic the the gestures or the touch rooting cursors, you would use the touch sensors. It's audio and video output compatible, so it does have onboard text to speech and it supports many uning different languages. It has a USB A, USB C port, has an all-day battery, and that's something that we're very impressed about with the battery in actually last. These two days has a braille keyboard for your input skills and of course you can plug in a quarity keyboard and the dimensions is a size of a 15 inch gaming laptop waying about four and a half pounds. I'm just showing a slide that has the the image of the monarch. I'm just going to go through some some buttons briefly. So on the top for surface to the left, we have a pan up button. And directly below that is a deepad, a directional pad that has up down neft and right. Now the deepad is going to be traditionally used when you're pan in a tactile graphic. It's also can be used when you're navigate in around a document. So if you want to move your cursor in a different place and you don't want to use touch technology, you can use your up down neft right keys on the right side of that top. Part of the display, you do have another deepad, which is mimicane exactly the same as the less. You do have a choice. You have to use your left of the right and then on the right side, just directly below that deepad is a pan down button. So your pan down and your pan up buttons are used for pan in the display up to 10 lines of of braille and and that can be also change. Now you directly underneath the. The taptor display on the corn of the left we have a minus button and on the button right, we have a plus button. These two buttons are used to zoom in or make a taptor graphic bigger. So when we interact with a taptographic, we're going to be using these two keys to zoom in or zoom out, but these also have a second, a second. They can also do perform a second ask. And if you have Braille displayed or where you're read in a document or where you're in a menu, you can increase the space in. So you can you can mimic double line space in. And the typical use cases you may have very different students that like to have Braille quite close or you may have a younger learner that doesn't like to have too much Braille its they find it hard read enough the paper because it's you close. We can mimic double line space in. Instance, so we can increase the line space in by pressing the pluskey and you're notice it will go from 10 to eight lines to 7 and finally to 6 lines. We then have our traditional Perkins keyboard with eight dots, the patible with various different braille tables over 250 impact. And in between the braille keys 1 and 4, we have a refresh button. This also has two tasks. So if you find that there's some random dots that up that should be down always fursor, we can press this button about two or three seconds and it will give a quick clean off the display. It's also used in conjunction with the touch. So with the touch, how we would do this is we would point to a position and we'll use this button I've a press it once or press it twice symbitrial like a mouse. On the left edge of the monarch, we have costas to us is the USB A bot. We're then have a power button and we're then have USB C. USB C will be used predominantly if you're connecting it, we have a screen reader. And during site city, we are show case in our partnership we of Hisparo, where we are show case in native multi-line support with Jewels. We have the touch sensor at the very top edge. So this is what's grabbing all of your finger positions. So when you touch the display, it can recognize where your fingers are. And occess we have the tattoo display which has 400 and BT cells. On the front edge, from the left, we have a caught, a triangle shape button which is got a bad button. This will exit you out one level wet a time. Then in the middle we have a home button which will always were take you to the home menu and then the square shape button which is a recent apps button which will be used to switch between varies apps that you're that you've got open. And then on the right side we have our audio jacks up and down, volume keys and a HDMI port that you can connect to a monitor so that the site tippers can see what you're doing. Let's talk about the how then and how this was preated. And it does involve partners. And Humanware is an equal business and developer with APH. So the American Print and Alice are equal investors of the monarch. We have the technology that's been utilized bon by dot incorporation. And we have partnership such as the National Federation for the Blind so ensure that we keep the Blind Jews at the Center. And that's really important that we are creating a product for a blind and it's so important that we make sure that we listen to all the feedback out there and that we make necessary changes to accommodate everyone's means. And then there's the EBRAL part where there's over 40 organizations and businesses help in with this new EBRAL standard. And to assist on the EBRAL standard,The Daisy consortium will bring that eBrow to life. So Daisy consortium is creating this new standard in the help of all these other organizations to make this. The just quickly touch base on the eBrow. And this is really important part because BRF has to evolve. You know BRF has been around from many years and just hasn't evolve. You there's so many problems with the BRF in terms of navigating. So you're unable to navigate around a braille file. Think of this like a notepad or just a text file where you're very limited on navigating by paragraphic even sentences. What this new revolution or file type will do will combine three different pillets. It will combine the braille literacy of your spatial format in. So it will keep the integrity of your spatial format in. It will also integrate taptile graphics. So no longer do you need to go find those tats or graphics on the separate book. Those tats or graphics can be sent as a link. You'll be a what's open that up on devices like the monarch. And then the last piece is of course navigating, how you can navigate around a braille file. So very much like an ePub. So the eBraille to summarize is really bringing a braille ready format file into an ePub. I've just listed some of the benefits here and we'll touch base I'm sure on on the demonstrations in a moment, but some of the things that we could do with the monarch today is a just line spacing. There is a single line mode available. We have the text to speech on board. We have braille learning tables. We have a visual braille output that be really helpful for those that have are more cited than they want to see the braille displayed and help with the braille learning. As a visual finger locations, you can see where the students of fingers are, where they're reading. We have onboard brell translation, both duck spree and dip Louis tables, as a robust contextual menu and most importantly braille and tactile legacy in one. And that's really important when we look at tactile graphics. You know, having tactile graphics is great, but you do need to have braille labels, everwise there's no real understanding or context behind that. 32 characters by 10 lines. We can expose more taptographics with online libraries. We support math ML and there's more applications being built, including a impromptue drawing application for wing it. And that will allow you to draw on an iPad and you'll be able to instantly get that drawing displayed on your monarch. Watching I'm and I'm able to show that today with the screen. Um, but if you are at site city, please do come and visits. Okay, so let's see this at action. I'm just let's stop my screen for one moment and then I'll share it again. Okay, let's say my screen. In the net browser, you close yet. Okay, so we should have. The visual screen of the menu that's being shown from monarch. So I've connected this to my to my laptop and I'm able to share my screen. I've also got the audio that's coming through. So hopefully you'll be able to hear where the the where the focus is as well and I'll explain a lot of this as well as we go through the demonstration. So a few pieces here in the menu and what I'm going to do straight away. Is I'm going to turn on my braille output. Now the braille output is fantastic because those that are visual piers, I'm actually that are looking at the screen, are able to see what I'm seen in braille. So I'm showing the the whole braille and tack tall array on the screen we braille dots. Not only that, you'll be able to see where my fingers are. So as I start to press around these screen, you'll be able to see where my fingers are reading. So think of those situations would remote learning. So you're able to see exactly where I'm reading using the point location. This is where the touch gesture is coming into play. You'll also notice on the very far left side, this little symbol that has nine dots. So there's a little symbol next to our menus that has nine dots. This is called the Focus Indicator, and that was really this is really important to know because when you're used to a single line display, if you're using voice server, if you're using draws, whatever is focused on the on the screen is of course focused on your display. So you could action something you could press enter and you will enter on that particular item. But when we're with multiline, that's not the case. So we had to think of a way of how can we show a user, this is where the accessibility focuses. And that's why we've introduced this focus indicator, which allows you to take control or where that focuses. So navigating through the menus as an exam, there's multiple ways to navigate through the menus. We can use our directional DPAT keys so. You've got one on the left, the one on the rights, and you can use up word processor keyword. So as I go down math, key math. On the display, this focus indicator will also move File Manager Files. I could also use my space spar to go forwards victor reader. Or can you use my dot 7, which is by backspace Files to go back files, math, key math. You can use space.1 or so. Go backwards, files and space dot for Victor Report. Rail Terningle, Victor Reader. So these these are most common ways to get started navigating around menus and lists. So whenever you are in a menu, whenever you are in a list, so a file manager for example, you are notice that focus indicator be visible. You may also come across this focus indicator more than once. And that just tells you that the focus extends more than one line. So imagine a big, big paragraph of a book, you may find that this focus indicator you've find it's about four lines or five lines because that's where the focus is media. Other ways to navigates is first letter. So as you become familiar with the mark, you can start type in the initial letter. So if I wants to go to my emails, I could press letter e-mail. I then could also use touch gesture and that's where the power of the touch sensors come ins play, certainly when we talk about multiline reading. So as I'm reading this display, I particularly want to go to the fire manager. So as I press with one finger only, I can press on the button between my one and four keys. It's a round button between my dots, one and four my perkins. As I press that button files. The focus indicator will jump through that place, which is great. But I can also press the the refresh button twice. So if I want to go into my Word processor, so I find the Word processor. And once I'm in the WordPress I can then double click and what what double click will do will take you into that menu. Very much like your voice server gestures where you'll double click in to enter item. So there's a few ways to navigate through monarch. I'm just going to go back to the main menu by pressing my home key. Main menu, Braille Editor, Key BRF. So just talking about some of these applications. So we do have a Braille Editor, Key BRF. This is identical to a Perkins Braider. Whatever you type, it will display. This is a great tool to mimic the Perkins breller. So if you're into spatial math, if you want to show spatial maths, this is a great tool because you can mimic exactly what a perkins can do, but in a dynamic way. So as I open up this brell editor, I do have an example here with some spatial math. It's all going to be soon our you've type it. So if you if you have a your own code, it all of course spit out your own code. If it's a document that's in grade 1 or grade 2, of course it's going to display that there's no translation happening here. But I am displaying an example of spatial maths when we look at the kind of column method where in the approach here is very difficult to do when you talk about a single line display. But there's other things that you can use brought addits of force such as just reading. So as I just open up and never document here is in that's a graph. I have an every example of Alesson Wonderland files. Noting. Top. And so those that are able to see in my screen, I'm showing what I can see on my braw display and what you'll notice is the formatted. So here I can straight away find that my title is spaced in the center. I know where the paragraphs are because they're indented. I think about applications such as coding apps. Where indentations very important. And as I mentioned about the the plus keys and the minus key to increase the line space in, we could also do this. As I hit my plus key lines. You are noticed now, those are to seen the screen, the the gap between the lines are increasing. So now I have eight lines, seven lines, and now have seven lines, six lines, and then six lines is the the least that you can go. So go back to 10 lines, you could hit the minus key. 8 lines, 10 lines. So you are in full control of your whole user experience there. So that's the brow editor. Just come out of brow editor. Keep the RF. Mainman your. Rail editor. Keep the RF. And let's go on to the next item which is Tactile viewer. A tactile view is the application that will open up all of your tactile graphics. And the following file formats are supported. PDF. And PDF is predominantly used for tactographics. So that will display your tactographics and braille labels. We do support JPEG, Bitmap, PNGs and I think that's pretty much it at the moment. But when we've talk about JPEGs and Bitmaps and PNGs, they'll show you the outline of an image. But of course, any braille labels that will be on that tactographic will just increase because it's an image. So if you want to have a tactile graphic with brow labels, it does need to be in the PDF format, which of course is one of the files that are supported for tactographics for the new eBrow. So let's go ahead and open up tactile viewer, a PhDGIL menu, a PhDGIL. So when we open up Tactile view menu, we do have a few options here. We have open, we have APHTGIL. And we have settings. If it's a file that's already existed on your device, maybe it's on a USB stick, then we can go to open and that will open up your time management system. But if however you want to explore additional taps of graphics, so as I mentioned one of the barriers is the lack of taps of graphics that have been exposed and the cost and the time it takes to produce, now with the onboard. Library access APHTJL. It has over 2000 graphics that you can access instantly at your own issue, really exposion, more tattoo graphics, and we'd love to expand this to more libraries globally. We'll come on to that just in moment, but for now I'm just going to choose open, open. So again, you'll notice those that I see in my screen I've got open in contractive roll, so I'm said to use contractive roll. And just of the left of that, I do have my focus indicator telling me that's where the focus is. Now I can select that by pressing the entity which will be .8 in this case and that will open up my file management system. Download 2020 underscore AFC underscore cress.jpg. Okay, now I'm just going to quickly open up a really simple tactor graphic just to show case. or how you navigate around quickly and then we're going to a bit more the complex image. So let me just go and open up a demo facial file, storage, alarms, SIM, demo files, demo files, but dot dot easyshapes.pdf. Okay, so this is an easyshapes.pdf file that I created and I created this in Word, but of course, so you can use your actographic. Creation suite, whichever you use. So when we first open up a taxographic then this taxographic was created with 11 by 11 a half shoot of paper. So any taxographic that we open up on the monarch, it will put it into this overview mode. Think a bit like a print preview. So in word you have a print preview, there's not a lot of information that you can get from it, but it gives you an idea that there are things to explore. So as I feel on the display. Yes, you could probably work out there are some shapes here, as we get some more complex imagines, this will just be a lot of random dots, but the real value here is to get an understanding of that page that there's something on the top right here that I need to go investigate. There's something on the bottom right. There's you get in the middle of this, and there's a single dot at the top. So now it's time for you to explore this graphic in a bit more detail. There's a couple of ways of doing that. We can use the plus key. So as we use the plus key, that will take you in to the standard view. So now what it's done is taken me into this taxographic in the same scale that it would have been if it was emboss or printed. So 11 by 11 1/2 and what your notice is as I fill this shape, which is a star, I also have the braille labels start atly underneath with my labels. Now when you hit the plus key, that will just take you straight away into the center of that image. I'm going to go ahead and press the minus button and back out to my overview mode. The other method of navigating, which is by far the preferred method from a lot of our focus groups and studies, is using that point and double click. So with the one finger only, we point to position. So I'm going to point to my top left on my display. And now I'm going to double click on my round button between my dots one and four, my perkins keys, and that will then directly take me in to that particular spot or place of the page. Once you are in this mode, once you've enlarged it and you've got braille and you're into the image, there's only the two views that you have when it comes to PDF. So there's the overview and then there's the standard view. Now, in stand of you, that's where you're going to have brow labels, if any brow labels are visible, but you can then start to fan around using your directional keys. So I'm going to use my one of my keys, directional deep hats, just to move right. And now I'm into play on the right side of my image here, I've got a circle. Let's be in display. If I use my left or sorry my down, I'm now bringing this paper form kind of up on the display as I start to. Exposed more tactographics here as well. So now I've got my star that's just coming out of play and I now come into play with a a down arrow. Think of this a bit like iPhone users or or just tapic users for for those that are acided when you're pinch in, you're increase in that image. And then when you're increasing the image to move around that you'll using one finger to plan around. So think of it like that, if that's a good understanding if you are a cited user, this is exactly what we're doing. We've taptographics. We're making it bigger or we're enlarge in it to the same scale that it was created. And then we can plan around using our directional keys. Now once we're still in this standard view there are quick ways to jump around positions. And the way that I like to describe this is think of this page as a full cell or six dots. OK, so think of six dots and think of those six dots filling up that whole page. So if I want to get to my top left of my page, I could press space with dot one, those dot one's at the very top left corner. If I want to get to my bottom right corner of the page, which will be dot six, I can press space. With dot six and that will take me two a bottom my corner. Likewise, if I want to go to my middle left page, I compress space with two and middle right would be space with dot five. Now if I want to get into the center of the page, so maybe I want to get into the the real center, I compress space two and space five together, which is where my star is. If I want to go to my top. Center of the page. We know how to get to the top left, which is space.1. We know how to go to the top right, which is space with dot 4. So pressing those two keys together or take me to the top center my page. So this is how you could quickly navigate around this taptographic. And it doesn't matter what size it is, whether it is a four letter size, whether it's lever by 11 1/2 or whether it's an infinity. larger scale tattoo graphic because that's going to be the benefit having dynamic graphics. There's no limit in the size of paper. So think of like the periodic table where you've perhaps creating it on an emboss version or a zican or ziphus where you're taping all the pages together. No longer do you need to do that. We can just create a big scale graphic over as a PDF and you'll be able to open this up on the monart and navigatewithout stoning over pages. We of course can show multiple pages as well so it some PDF graphics do have multiple pages which will come to in a moment. The other piece I'd like to point out here is on the bottom of my display I have a row of dots. Also on my right side of my display, very far right side, we do also have a row of dots. These of what be call are scrollbars. Now someone who is blind may have heard what scrollbars are, but they may have not interacted with them before. Well, they may not understand the main use case for scrollbars, but this really gives you now a understanding spatially of where you are on that display on that bit of paper. So if I go back to my top left, OK, user myspace.1. This will explain it a little bit better for you. So if I look at my horizontal position, I'm as far left as I'd possibly go. So this tells me that I am on my left side of my page and as I start to fill that, it's now on the right side, there is some space for me to continue moving right if I want to. So as I pan right, what will happen is that scroll by on my horizontal position will start to move and I notice now that as I'm moving more rightly. That scroll bar is giving me some space on my bottom net because I'm I'm no longer on the less side of my display. Let me take go back to the very file left. Now on my vertical bar, this is really all the way to the top. So this again tells me that I'm at the top of my page and as I start to fill down this column, I do how some a lot of room to go down. So as I pan down now, that scroll bar will also move. So it's a real good indicator telling me where I am, and it's a really important skill set understand especially where you are in that page. Now those scroll bars can be removed if you need to in that setting options, but it does serve there for a lot of value and it's definitely a benefit to keep on. Now, once in tactilographic, you can also bookmark locations as well. So currently, I'm I'm on a square. If I want to bookmark this particular position, there is a shortcut for that. Now don't worry if you forgotten shortcuts, we're not here to teach you all these shortcuts. But what is a great training method and to show the simplicity of monarch is the contextual menu, the unball contextual menu that so cases what you can do at that even time. So to open up the context menu, you can press and holdWear button at the wavefront edge of your monarch, or you can press space with the letter M to bring up your context menu. Now this tells me all of the possible things that I can do within the monarch. Now as I navigate down, . Add work mark, backspace with him. It tells me the short that. Not only does it tell me in audio, but also embrowlic is me that. So this is a really good training aid. Now I want to add a board mark. This is exactly what I want to do and the shortcut for that it's back space of M. So now I know the shortcut is back to space of M. It's great. I can use that shortcut in the future, but I want to actually it from here. So I can press the entigate dot A to do exactly that. Enter boot move name at your box. Enter boot move name. It will then prompt me to to name this particular position. So here I'm just going to call this SQ. UARRE square and then press enter square taptile doing bookmark created. So that's now created kind of a a latin longitude or maybe a snapshot of where this where this is exactly taptographic is a period. So if I go to my bottom right side of the slain now where I've got the arrows, if I want to quickly jump to certain areas or certain bookmarks, I can then use the jump to bookmark shotcut. Again, if you don't know what that shocket is, we can press our space M context menu and we can go down to this jump to bootmark backspace with J backspace for J for next for the future reference. And I hit enter key to jump to bootmark. Enter bootmark name at it box. Enter bootmark name. It's thing going to prompt me the bookmark name that I want to jump to. So yes, you do have to remember the bootmark name. There is some future development that is underway where we're going to have a list. Of bootmarks, but for now you do have to kind of keep trackle those yourself. So as I type in square again, Q U A R E square tap tile. Again, that will take me straight to that square option. Now again, I'm just using this simple taps of graphic just to really show how we can navigate on a tap to graphic. But let's open up a bit more complex or more realistic kind of taps of graphic that you'll use. So I'm gonna hit the exer key. Tactile viewer. Open. I'm gonna choose open. Demo files, bargraphic sample, golf bolts.pdf. And I'm gonna open up this bargraphic example. Again, it's a PDF file. Tactile viewer. So again, when we open our pay tattographic, it just takes you into that preview mode. So as I'm explore in this page now, I'm able to see there some random dots that don't make sense at the very top. And I can see that there are some kind of loads of different or bars you could say. So yeah, again, you could work it out that this is a bargraph, but it's not going to give you any information of other what you think it could be. You're just kind of guessness. And that's why it's really important that you have the context that you have brell labels have an understanding of what attachographic. There's no good just show in pictures of emojis or just general graphics with no context because you won't know understand what that graphic is. So again, we have a couple of ways to explore this. So we could use the plus key, the zoom in key to zoom into that image, or I could use my point and click. So if I want to go to the bottom left corn of this, just to explore what this is. Point, double click on my refresh button. That now takes me into that particular place. And now I can start to read on my display. So here I can start a fill. Then I've got some brown numbers here. I've got a number sign two. And here underneath this particular what looks like a bar is is the color red. And as I move across, again, I've got another bar. And in the neath that we do have the color blue. And as I pan to my right using my deepad keys,More informations come into place. So here where I have yellow. OK, there's also information down here that says color. OK, so this is kind of my my legend. So my Y axis is kind of say color. And I've got some numbers on my left side here. So I'm going to go up just to explore more. Say fear around this actigraphic. I see that there are some bars that have stopped. So some that are lower than the others. So. As I come into plate if I wanted to kind of find out what the value of blue alls, okay?So I think blue is the second con. I feel blue. I'm now just going to find where blue stops. Okay, so blue is now stopped. And I'm going to try and find the value of that. As I find the value of that, we look at at six. So value of six is, yeah. Is the blue color. So again, this is a more realistic tactographic. There are many tactographics that we can access. So as I exit out here, there may be some graphics that we want to explore that we haven't seen before. And this is where the APHTJL is a fantastic place to go and find some new tactographics that you haven't seen. So again, I'm going to hit the enter on APHTGIL. You will need Internet access here. Search. Now I there's a couple of ways to to get these taxa graphics. You can search for keyword or there's different categories. So that I don't know if you've ever use the APHS library before it is free, so you can go in a computer and register off a free and you can have access to those those graphics, which is great a great resources place to go. You can go to these different categories and then select one or you can just search by keyword. But let's go and have a look under it's maybe landmark building music, more humans, landmarks buildings. Take a look under that category. Long, from TGI. Again, this depends on your Internet connectivity at this point and I'm just choose in the hotels connection here, so do a bologized bid is a little bit. Slow will blurry coming on the screen. Modern and landmarks buildings. Huck, the triumphy. OK, so here we have lows of the lows of options here as I'm read on this display here. Art de triumph. I've got the at a comma joint. I've got back end. I'd got big band. Tower. I'm going to choose the first one, which is the art de triumph. Then a point double click open up that. Blooding content, please wait. Top tile do OK. So again, the first time that you open up any kind of image it puts it into that preview window. And now it's time to me to explore. So I can use my plus key or I can use my points and click. And so now I'm going to explore this image and it opens up in the same scale. Oh it would have been embossed. So this I'd imagine it's going to be a pretty big sheet of paper that it was scaled to, maybe 11 by 11 a half as well. And I can fill kind of all. Things that are on the kind of the top end. I start just pan down towards the bottom too. I'm really just getting the general fill of this graphic here. It's see we got the the arc here that's coming into play. Don't think this any braille labels in here. I mean, from the APH's library it just gives you the exposure of the the graphics. There are some that do include braille labels, but of course it's it's in the grade of braille that was created because. It's not going to translate the print into brell this point. So if you are creating any graphics, of course, you'll be using something like maybe tactile view. You may be using Word. You may be using Corridor. If you start adding your own brell labels in there in your own language, their course would come across no problems. Morgen, humans. Landmarks buildings. ARK, the triumphic. May man you. OK, let's sir. They brow editor attacked of view. I'm not going to go into order the applications, but I will just briefly cover some e-mail. So we do have an onboard e-mail client here. So this will connect to your Office 3 six excite 5 accounts, Google accounts, and it's a great way to send in receive emails and attachments maybe it's attacks a graphic that you want to receive, perhaps it's an eBrow or be a ref book that you want to see receive or an eBrow or ePub or even a a Word document. So monarch is compatible with various different file formats. We then have. You're cosier. Internet browser. So we can now surf the web in a multi-line way. Fantastic if you want to just search for just maybe some of the graphics that you props want to create. Maybe use chat GPT to ask create a graphic or something and then open that up in tat talk view. These are all the things that you can now do. Word processor, key word. Now the Word processor is a print environment. So as we go into the Word processor, again, we have there is different options here on my display. We have create, we have open, we have print, we have emboss and then we have settings. I'm going to create something here. So this is where the translation tables that you're using will translate. So I press enter. I'm now in. Blank document. So think of this as you're using a Microsoft Word document here and you're ready to type. So I'm now going to type here on six O. Hello, my name S is dot 12346 W and Rule. OK. So again, I've prefer to use contracted brow, so it automatically translate dependent on your table. And this actually comes into print. So those that are visual, you'll be able to see on the transparent. I just turn my visual despite off as well. It's converted that into print. And so I can then print this out and I can then send it to teacher or I can even send it by e-mail. That's an attachment and it will all be print. So it's really, you know, inclusive. In terms of converting Braille in the print and also does it the everybody around Braille print in the Braille. So if I have a word document that was prepared by a teacher, I can open that up and I'll be able to read that in my preferred Braille code. Now give me just turn my visual braille output. I'm just going to hit enter to create a new line and I'm going to put today. Y is 88. at sunny 8 y day 256 day. OK, now I'm using 10 lines of braille. So I can display up to 10 lines at display moment in time, but I want to point out something care where you may want to adjust to 8, which is the default and of settings out of the box. So as I meet in my display, hello my name is Andrew. If I want to make some changes here, this is where we need to manipulate the curse, don't have any push buttons above itself. SoWe can either use our deepad keys, so our selectional deepad keys, which will start to move my cursor. So I can go up down, left and right. And my cursor will change dependent on the position in. So if I'm under a character or under a brell label brell character, it will give me three dots. So I can now have a cursor that the space three dots. If you are in a space, space. It's two dots. Now when we did a lot of our kind of focus groups, when we talked about dynamic multi line displays, it was very difficult to find your cursor if there's a lot of rail on the on this strip. So imagine finding a brail bit of paper, trying to find your cursor was very difficult. Now some people do also prefer to being a 10 lines and they could find your cursor so if it was a free dot. There was many people that could find it, not a problem, but all. But still you'll come into a problem here where under the O you've got my cursor and then it bleeds into the the second line, which is the S, which can also be difficult. And that's why undermand, you can at the plus key and then you get that extra space. And we talk about computer braw, those that are using computer braw, your podomony will be working with eight dots or sorry, eight lines are supposed to 10 lines. Because of course, you want that gap in between each line. But if you're used to six start braille, then for read in, you can you can revert to 10 lines, but when you'll edit in, you may want to adjust into eight lines certainly if you want to start looking at all nipulating your cursor. The other thing that we looked at and and this is based on feedback is, OK, well, what if I'm trying to find a word? And then I need to find my curse again. It's not very efficient because I'm still going to be searching fruit on our whole page. So what we've introduce is to move your focus or to move the the lines of the top. So as an example, I'm going to use my fine shook at which is space with the less F every box. And I'm going to type sunny. So I want to find the word sunny at why. Only hit the enta key at the fox. Now again, as I read my top line, it's not come into play, but I'm trying to find my my cursor of where it is. Now this sunny could be at the bottom of 10 lines or even the middle of 6 and 5. But just to show you what we've introduced, we can force this line now to the top by hitting enter to my dot 8 and F and that will then move my focus to the top line. And so now I'm only needing to search my top line for for where that word is. So again, when we've looking at multiline, dynamic multiline, we can't think about these different ways and methods of how a user can interact with. So there was a lot of thought that's going into this. There are things that will unsure that we've miss, but we have a very long aggressive roadmap before monarch indeed. And we'd very much welcome a lot of people's feedback. So as we. Going to places in Europe, like Germany and Neverlands, will be working with schools like the Blistus Campus School. We'll be working with them to ensure that we can hear everyone's needs possible. So this is how you would member like that cursor as I mentioned using your up down neft right keys, all you can also use your pointing click. So as I'm using my pointing click, I find the letter T, I can point my finger there, press home the year. Press on the refresh button between my one and four and that will take my cursor into play. And I can make some changes if I need to. So my market's not just a display. It's there for interaction. You can create all of your work on this device, certainly when it comes to the education side of things. Word processor also supports math amount. So if you've got documents that contain maths and you've created it with an equation editor, maybe you're using. Your math editor in Word or use and math type, all of that would be converted into your preferred code on the monarch. So you can also create math equations. So again, if I want to create some equations here, I can do so by open up my equation editor. Now if you don't know what the equation eters is, you can open up your context menu again. I happen to know what it is, which is my backspace math expression. You we be edit oxer?That's math. Enter with M, I beggy puddle. See, I forgot at myself. K math. We go back. Enter with M, math modon. So now that could be my math modon. It could be a little indicator here. Tell I mean my math start. And now I can start time in in my math. So let's do dot B. dot 235 specs a half dot 3 B dot 3 A1. Now if I press enter, I can then use multi-line mass. So if I do want it in every equation, I can it enter and it'll go as a second line and I'm still in math mode. I do need to tell monarch to turn math mode off and to do that again, it's a toggle. Enter with M is a toggle to start mass and to N mass. Again. Math is into M processing math. That then processes the math. And what that does is now?It is now going to translate that. So it's going to translate that into print. Now visually at the moment when we're in the live view, today is a sunny day and then we can see just broaddots. But if we do a print, so if I was to print this or if I was to send this to the teacher. I can do a quick visual preview of my document and that will display in print please. Now I can see, hello, my name is Andrew. Today is a sunnyday half plus a half equals 1. And now, second parkument, new line. If you want to create grass, we can now go into our key graph or key mass application. Now key mass is an application that allows you to do calculations and then also it allows you to. 38 grass in real time and that shortcut is backspace in M. So backspace of M, kemath expression. What do you open up?My kemath expressions and I can now start to type various different equations. So let's do 2x dot 2 3 plus 3y equals dot E 5 here enter kemath. OK, so I'm going to play. So visually, the print side of things and those are a visual that can see my screen. I have three different sections. I have my braille sections. I then have a print of the formula and I then have on the right side of this play the graph that it's appearing. But for the braille use at this moment in time, order I have as a list of all my equations and because I'm in a list, remember I've got my. Focus indicator there show me where the focus is. So if I want to make some changes, I can hit enter on this formula and make the history change. If I want to see the graph, so if I want to find out, OK, I can see this this graph, there is a shortcut for that as well. But I want to explain these other little additional braille that you see maybe just before the equations. So on my top line, I've got a letter G and an E. And then it gives me my equation. Now GE means it's graph enabled. OK, means whatever this equation is here. OK, it's created a graph. OK, as likewise down the bottom here, G and E, it's created a graph. If you want to hide things, so it maybe you don't want to see. That particular line. OK, you can hide that, but I come to that in just a moment. So I now know that wherever I created here its graph. So that I wants to go to have a look at that. Shortcut for that is entergy, but again, you can open up your context menu. Can that?Now I can create now what it's done it's created a kind of a snapshot of the graph. So as I move around using my minus keys, my plus keys, I can use my panning keys as well to move around. And as I fill this, I'm now seeing my x and y axis since a play. I'm now seeing kind of a multiple lines here that are in my equation. So I'm feed in what is the probular, kind of more curved. And I also see that there is a kind of a diagonal line that's coming between my x and burn across my y axis as well. Now what we can do here is that's a question that mayor the teacher wants to ask me is where does the where did the lines into sect on the y axis or the x axis?Right. So here we can second where that is. We can point, we can then use my double click and what will happen is 00.1001.7. It will give me the audio and the brow feedback at the ray top of my x and y position. So with this graphic, I can now interact and find the certain positions when asked to do so. So again, let's find it on this bit down the bottom here on the point and click 0.037. So 1.4 where that kind of lines starts to intersect on my y access. But there's too many lines here. So let's say you've got multiple lines. It can get very compusing and and we use Desmos. Desmos as the integrated graphing tool. And in desmost, those that a cited among sure you'll notice that every line or equation is different color. So how can we show that for tax our user? Well, what we can do is is we can hide the equation. So I'm going to go to this equation here that I'm on my 2x1 and I want to hide that. I press in my backspace or dot 7 and 123 and that's now hidden it and it's now converted my GE to NG mean it not graphic. Now when I'll view my graph, I'm now just seeing the probular graph. So there's a way that you can remove and find out which which graph or which line is create is equivalent through that equation. Now what I really do love about the the possibilities and what we've created here is the the sponsor nuity which is which isn't really available in the classroom today. What I mean by that is, well, if I want to change some equations, what would happen to my graph today in the real time world, if a student ask a teacher, they make explain that. They make quickly get the wiki sticks to find help. They may not have the time. But again, it's not really the case of where that student or user is trying to find out for themselves. So I'm going to do that. OK, I want to find out well, what would happen if I change this value? Maybe minus dot 6 dot 6 dot 6 dot 6 deleted. So as I go down, maybe 3 dot 3 six do a minus sign. OK, so now that I've done that, I want to view my graph and within 5 or so seconds, I've now noticed that we changing it to a negative, example, it's not on my negative part of my graph. So these these are some basic things that I'm missing in today's classroom and. Now this is now possible founds to the monarch where you can instantly on your own find out what would happen in real time to this grants. Then lastly, to finish off, we can then copy this and we can then paste it into expressions document. No, button. Yes. We want to copy that over and we want to paste it in. Add it box. Enter my document. Please wait. Move to clipboard. Space. As I've pasted it into my document now, I'm going to do a print preview. So if I was to send this to the teacher, I will also have the printed graph and the braille equation. So really, again, really inclusive for those that are not predominant with brow, you can now create all of your stuff in browning your own language and then send that just acided here. Mayman, you're really let it out. So we talked about maths, we talked about the word process support of math MML. I know I've got short amount of time, and I really wanted to show you one last thing. That's the Victor Reader. Now, Victor Reader, and we support ePub. We support Word documents. So it's multiple fies that we support in Victor Reader. It is a library. So we are connected to all of the online libraries, traditionally Daisy, and also there are some libraries that support Braille. This is a nePubbook. So if you're traditionally using ePubbooks. And you create a graphic inside your EPA book. What we're doing here is as I'm reading, I come across any particular. Here is a line drawing of yard, the triumphy. Graphic, it gives me a link. And with that link, I can now point and click. And that will then open up that graphic. It says. Let me do a put chat. Let's do put up this one here. This one of the Eiffel Tower. So this is a JPEG and the JPEGs I can actually zoom in and zoom in and zoom in Infinity. So I can zoom into get more details here of of this particular tapa graphics. So as I'm zooming in on the Iffel Tower, I'm seeing where the the restaurant is. I can move down, I can move up. And then once I'm finished with that tapa graphic, I can just exit out, continue reading the story, and drawing the Icle tap. And then whenever there's another graphic, I can click double click on it and it will open up that graphic. And this is exactly how the eBro is working with those free pillars I mentioned. You'll find the spatial interact, your spatial format in. You can quickly navigate by chapters, by pages and of course it integrates all of your tatsographics on the one device, on the one five. I'm gonna stop there. 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