Thank you for the clarification and news of a definite fix from Humanware. I apologize to HW for my harsh comments on this topic, but I hope you (hw) can understand the confusion over whose fault the incompatibility was. After all, a similar problem happened a couple years back with a jaws driver, with hw blaming fs when I called them, but fs blaming hw when I checked with fs. I will certainly email [email protected] to request that they fully support QT apex models, and I urge you all to do the same, even if you (like me) do not actually use a qt. After all, the more support a company sees for a suggestion, the more they will do to implement it, hopefully. Who knows, iOS5 may have already fixed this and everyone will be happy once it comes out, hopefully this fall.
On 8/11/11, Alex Bec <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'll give a few insights into the context of this Apex QT vs Braille > Terminal issue to complete Joseph's comprehensive summary. > > > > Up until 9.1, in the Braille Terminal, the QT models were forced to > operate as Perkins keyboards using the home row, so both models were > essentially behaving in a similar way. With 9.1 the QT was allowed to > operate as a QT so as to improve the user experience with the recent > versions of JAWS that support this. Unfortunately, this had the > unintended consequences that you didn't fail to notice and that we > somehow failed to foresee at that time. > > > > So as far as Apple is concerned, yes, if they could extend their driver > to support the enhanced Braille terminal protocol with pass through of > QT commands, then that would work "as well" as on JAWS. I believe the > specs of the protocol have been exchanged and/or are quite open > standards, so it's a matter of time for this to happen. But it's indeed > up to Apple to do this part, as pointed by Dominic, and this applies to > GW Micro and others. As for brltty and brlAPI, I suspect these are open > projects that could get updated too with a bit of work. > > > > In the meantime, on our side, we've restored a way to get the QT to > operate in Perkins mode in the Braille Terminal so that it should behave > the way it was pre-9.1. It is in the pipe, and here again, just a matter > of patience before it is available to you, and eventually, you'll be > able to select whichever mode works best with your (changing) > environment, and get the most of it. > > > > Cheers, > > Alex > > ________________________________ > > Alex BEC > Software Design Engineer > > HumanWare > > > Christchurch, New Zealand > > S: alexandrebec > > IP phone: 344 > > www.humanware.com <http://www.humanware.com/> > > ........................................................................ > ........................................................................ > ......................... > > The power is in your hands > > > > > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
