What are refreshable Braille displays?
Braille displays are usually rectangular in shape with pins that move up and down that form letters of the Braille cells. When used in conjunction with a screen reader, they provide a tactile Braille representation of what JAWS speech synthesis says and what’s showing on the monitor. Braille displays usually have a row of buttons on the panel above the Braille cells that move the cursor to a chosen position when pressed, to edit a spelling mistake, for example, or to click on a link in Internet Explorer. These are called cursor routing buttons. In addition to the cursor routing buttons, Braille displays often have advance buttons, whiz wheels or rocker switches that allow the user to move a line up or down in reading or skim a few lines at a time.
