Monarch Braille Display

[Michael Cantino]

Hi,

I thought this group might be interested to know that I currently have a Monarch braille display. It's technically on loan from CATT-NW, but I expect that I'll have it for at least the next few months, likely longer. 

I'm just unboxing it now, so I haven't put it through its paces yet. The newest version of JAWS now supports multi-line braille displays, and I'm really curious to see how it will work with math content. If you have Monarch experiments you want to run, let me know. 

Michael Cantino

[Rob Beezer]

On 12/15/25 15:31, Michael Cantino wrote:
> I'm just unboxing it now,

Are you making an "unboxing" video for TikTok?

> If you have Monarch experiments you
> want to run, let me know.

Yahoo! Thanks - that'll be great. I'll see about producing something for you.
I presume an "un-paginated" BRF would be a reasonable format?

Rob

[Michael Cantino]

No unboxing video, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around this thing. I've got some basics down, but I haven't tried loading any new files onto it. 

I don't know if the BRF you provide needs to be unpaginated or not. My guess is that it shouldn't matter?? It does use a 32-cell line.

Michael

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On 12/18/25 10:40, Michael Cantino wrote:
> I don't know if the BRF you provide needs to be unpaginated or not.

I'll send both.

> My guess is
> that it shouldn't matter?? It does use a 32-cell line.

That'll be interesting. If I was good, it'll mean just one edit before I build
output....

Rob

[Alexei Kolesnikov]

Would Monarch accept SVG images with Braille? Here's one from David's PreFigure Playground.

--Alexei

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[Michael Cantino]

It doesn’t support SVG yet. The Monarch FAQ document has some helpful details. 

• Currently supports these file types: APK, BRL, BRF, Doc, Docx, EBRF, EPUB, JPG, PDF images, PDF documents, PNG, TXT
• You can add your own graphics in PDF format

Michael

On Dec 18, 2025, at 4:40 PM, Alexei Kolesnikov <alexei.s....@gmail.com> wrote:



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