VoiceOver with the Brailliant Display


Book Description

Learn what a screen reader can, and cannot do. Build a step by step foundation to screen reader use with the Brailliant braille display to read, write, work, and communicate using VoiceOver on the Mac. Familiarize unfamiliar screen reader terms in order to develop and expand knowledge. Translate spoken VoiceOver commands to braille display commands. Learn to use a computer as easily as before sight and hearing loss. Originally published in June 2016 - VoiceOver with a Mac Mini using operating system El Capitan and a Brailliant Braille Display. Last updated for Sierra, OSX fall of 2016.




Bending the Bars


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Anne knows she cannot leave Kyle. Believes he is the first person to never lie to her. Never will leave, once her son is born. Escaping is fraught with danger. No contact orders mean nothing to abusers. Survivors of domestic abuse know they will be tracked. And often murdered. She has been conditioned to believe abuse is normal. Trained to believe fear, hiding, and secrets are routine for everyone. Law prevents mothers with children from escaping, unless she abandons her children to the abuser, to keep another generation under the thumb of abuse. Jo and Lennie won't give up trying to find Anne. To rescue her. To bring her to safety with Ruby's Law, inadequate as it is. In legal limbo land, safe from her abuser, surrounded by other survivors. Few make it out to live beyond the bars. It simply isn't safe. Abusers wait out there. Often barely beyond the fence. 44 Chapters 80,000 Words 6 X 9 - 315 7 X 10 - 373




Shifting Horizons


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Tammy's best friend Genell pushed her away from the horse farm where they had practically grown up together. Tammy moved to the city to explore college and find a future while mourning her life-long friend. Only, her life twists in ways she never knew were possible. Without the farm to sneak across the creek to, Tammy takes a part time job to keep her mind busy. Until she is too sick to work. Secrets have been hidden from her, many in plain sight. Some secrets her family thought she knew. Others, they hoped would never affect her. Tammy's plans for her future change as secrets are revealed. Everything she thought she knew about herself, her family, and her neighbors falls apart around her. Becoming an adult, and building a future, will mean forging an unexpected bond.




Mirror Worlds


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Stay safe from the Evacuation Zone with Peanut Butter and Jelly while visiting the Isolation Worlds or Planet Loreia in Gamma Zaria. Molly's Second Chance in the Meadow Race leads to Summer on Solar Life. While I Don't Mean You is intended to be encouraging, it often leads to Better Forgotten Memories as the Status Quo, or No shifts. Nerissa's Legacy gives us A Fair Beginning with Prince Charming, in a life where the Safe Place is home. As our world struggles to survive, and to find A Measure of Life, filled with Painted Paper, will we build Glasses Houses, or Cycle through our lives? Adult Orphanages, and Finally Family may become reality, instead of Second Place. Will Broken Dogma lead us to Cluster? Or will The Gift allow us to encourage Going Hunting while Saving the Family Farm with (or without) the Written Word? Stories slip between ten categories. Delve deep into forty stories about an altered past, a dreamed of future, and perhaps, even a present we don't recognize under the surface. Meet aliens, and cultures you don't know exist.




Crosswinds: Past, Present, and Future Combine


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Terra is always outside, looking in. No true connection to anyone, anywhere, except for one city friend. She expects the village life stories from the elders to be simple and routine. Never has she been expected to participate in the village life. Sure. She's rocked a baby, cooked a meal, shared memories. No more, until now. This village of people lost between cultures is different. Their fragmented stream of life sweeps her off her feet, and threatens all she knows of her own past, and future. Some villagers wish the whole village to flounder on the border of the only homeland they know. She must tame the stream back into its banks, and strengthen it for the future. Terra risks her past, future, and one friendship in the world, to try to rescue this village. And the children she has begun to call her own.




Trails 3: Tales


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Trails 3: Tales Pair 2, Book 1 Time: 200 years in the future Roamers appear from the unknown lands. Fear spreads, as the dig leader of Webbel adjusts the rules one too many times. When did travel beyond Klapit end? Why did the leader choose to send the members of the other villas away before the dig season began? The community splits as the specter of violence from the tales of their ancestors appears in their midst. Zella and Tanna must both fight an evil so great, it only exists in campfire tales. Trauma everyone thought was long forgotten, and would never return to disturb the peace of their villas has returned. Zella must slip out of hiding to save herself, and the rest of the community leaders. Tanna must reach through the fog of fear to find leadership qualities she didn't know she possessed.




Trails 4: Mines


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Trails 4: Mines Pair 2, Book 2 Time: 210 years in the future Klapit mine abandoned to the ghosts. Shelpit mine nearly empty after half a generation. The orphans are now adults, struggling to find a future in Shells. Corandra feels her ancestors have cursed her. Which seems to be proven when she digs up a box in a forbidden location that brings a devastating illness to the villa. Rusty fears her future as the dig leader is at stake because the mine she found as a child is now empty. With no practicable skill, she has no guaranteed place among the villa. Ambrena's foster sister/mother Tanna fears Tanna's daughters will replace her as apprentice healer in the villa. Leaving her alone, adrift, without a purpose. Rusty and Ambrena believe they have been truly banished when they are sent together to find Corandra's mother, to bring their wayward fellow orphan sister home to Shells.




Trails 1: Fault Lines


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Trails 1: Fault Lines Pair 1, Book 1 A devastating cascade of earthquakes strike New Mexico's forgotten fault lines. Quakes spread across the continent. Fumeroles emerge in unknown hotspots. As the continental plates shift, so do the lives of Amber and Alex as they struggle to find firm ground in the altered landscape. Their search for the source of the quakes leads them to an inaccessible volcanic plain in the one place they don't want to go. Aftershocks spread through the land, changing communities, forcing most to flee for their lives. The world as Amber and Alex knew crumbles around them. Family and friends missing. Communications fail. Society as they knew it, teeters on the brink of collapse.




Coffee, Tea, and Gluten Free: Vegetables


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Do you miss green bean casserole? Crave baked sweet potatoes? Enjoy squash and meat casserole? Relish potato soup? Miss bean salad? Yearn for vegetable casserole? Long for onions and mushrooms? Hunger for pea salad? Dream of growing your own vegetables? They can easily be made gluten and allergy free. As tasty, if not more so, than gluten filled products. While cooking and baking gluten (and allergy) free is often as simple as leaving the grains out, boxed mixes are available for allergy safe treats. Most grain items can be found at your local grocery store. Fresh produce can be easily grown, or bought at a local farmers market. Over 62 successful and affordable gluten (or other allergy) free recipes made with easy to find ingredients from your local store, or garden. Most recipes are grain free, and easy to cook. Enjoy cooking and eating again!




Coffee, Tea, and Gluten Free: Meat


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Do you miss meatloaf? Crave spaghetti? Enjoy ground beef and noodles? Relish chicken and dumplings? Miss chili? Yearn for sloppy joes? Dream of creamy casseroles? Long for seafood salad? Hunger for turkey pot pie? They can easily be made gluten and allergy free. As tasty, if not more so, than gluten filled products. While cooking and baking gluten (and allergy) free is often as simple as leaving the grains out, boxed mixes are available for allergy safe treats. Most grain items can be found at your local grocery store. Fresh produce can be easily grown, or bought at a local farmers market. Over 75 successful and affordable gluten (or other allergy) free recipes made with easy to find ingredients from your local store, or garden. Most recipes are grain free, and easy to cook. Enjoy cooking and eating again!