Switch easy from computer braille o contracted braille with one key combination

In Screenreaders and Smartphones you can switch the braille output on your display from computer braille to 6-dots braille or contracted braille. For this you can go to the menue of your screenreader.In IOS on your iPhone you have keycombinations for this: braille keyboard: 1 2 4 6 9
In JAWS you can define a key combination the following way:
JAWS+j
utilities
keyboardmanager
When the manager has started, you are first in a list of software where the commands should work. Keep “default” to define commands for every situation.
By pressing Tab you have a huge list of commands and you can define key combinations.
Go in this list to: Braillegrade2translation
Then go to the contextmenue and select “add key combination”
Press the key combination you want to use on your computer keaboard or on your braille display and press Enter.
That way you can define different combinations for one command like one on the computer keyboard and one on the braille display.

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