This is a picture of the dot pad. It is a black plastic device and at the top there is a large square area that is 10 lines long by 30 characters wide. Below that there is a divider with two arrow shaped buttons that are for panning, the display and four oval shaped function keys. Below that there is the traditional single line of braille. The single line of braille is used for looking at captions and the larger area can be used for looking at pictures, or you can just use the larger area to read multiple lines at once rather than having to continuously scroll