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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Thought I’d answer Ruby’s question in a new thread as it relates to wider than the exam pieces we were discussing and others might be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Yes you can open brf files in Duxbury (but not its free version Perky Duck). You can also open them in Sao Mai Braille (SMB) and I think Braille Zephyr from American Printing House will also open them, but I haven’t got it working with NVDA and Sao Mai currently doesn’t work with NVDA either, so only JAWS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>What kind of Braille display do you have? I have found two settings that can be of help with brf. When I’m using NVDA with the Braille extender add on installed there is a brf mode. This mode helps display brf correctly. Without it it is ok to read, but does add in some additional 456 345 characters which apparently relate to capitalisation and other formatting. They do not emboss, but do show on the display unless you use the brf mode.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I also have my screen reader set to North American Computer Braille and then have used another NVDA Braille extender feature to supress dots 7 & 8 and this displays music perfectly in Duxbury and Good Feel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Bill had also said that it might be possible if you have a brf file to rename the extension to .gf for good feel instead of .brf and then open it in Good Feel. I haven’t tested this. But also remember that Good Feel is really only designed to view the Braille before embossing and make small changes, it really doesn’t work as an editor to open and save multiple times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>As Ella mentioned before. All of this only works with a Braille display as screen readers can’t read out Braille in a way that makes any sense. It can kind of read out literary in something like notepad if you know what the Aski characters are, but this is practically impossible for music, you would have to have a super super brain to be remembering and interpreting things like a number sign being an er which is an F crotchet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Jeanie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>