Defining an insertion indicator

A method to define an insertion indicator on a Braille device having a plurality of Braille cells, each of the plurality of Braille cells including Braille dots 1-6 to represent a character and Braille dots 7-8 to convey additional information, the method comprising:

• receiving information on a processor about the insertion indicator at a location that is between a first and a second adjacent characters displayed on a display device;
• providing an output associated with the insertion indicator from the processor to a first Braille cell in which Braille dots 1-6 correspond to the first character on the Braille device, the output to raise exactly one dot from Braille dots 7-8 of the first Braille cell;
• and
• providing the output associated with the insertion indicator from the processor to a second Braille cell adjacent to the first Braille cell in which Braille dots 1-6 of the second Braille cell correspond to the second character on the Braille device, the output to raise exactly one dot from Braille dots 7-8 of the second Braille cell such that the two raised dots from Braille dots 7-8 of the first and the second Braille cells are adjacent one another.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium containing executable program instructions which cause a data processing system to perform operations to define an insertion indicator on a Braille device having a plurality of Braille cells, each of the plurality of Braille cells including Braille dots 1-6 to represent a character and Braille dots 7-8 to convey additional information, the operations comprising:

• receiving information about the insertion indicator at a first location that is between a first and a second adjacent characters displayed on a display device;
• providing an output associated with the insertion indicator to a first Braille cell in which Braille dots 1-6 correspond to the first character on the Braille device, the output to raise exactly one dot from Braille dots 7-8 of the first Braille cell;
• and
• providing the output associated with the insertion indicator to a second Braille cell adjacent to the first Braille cell in which Braille dots 1-6 of the second Braille cell correspond to the second character on the Braille device, the output to raise exactly one dot from Braille dots 7-8 of the second Braille cell such that the two raised dots from Braille dots 7-8 of the first and the second Braille cells are adjacent one another.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a Braille device coupled to the processor, the Braille device having a plurality of Braille cells, each of the plurality of Braille cells including Braille dots 1-6 to represent a character and Braille dots 7-8 to convey additional information;
• and
• a display device coupled to the processor,
• wherein the processor is configured to receive a location of an insertion indicator that is between a first and a second adjacent characters displayed on the display device and to provide an output associated with the location of the insertion indicator to the Braille device, wherein the output causes the Braille device to reproduce the location of the insertion indicator by raising exactly one dot from Braille dots 7-8 in each of two adjacent Braille cells that correspond to the first and the second adjacent characters such that the two raised dots are adjacent one another.