To the best of my knowledge, it is still possible to compile and run BRLTTY under MacOS. I haven’t tried it, however. VoiceOver for MacOS supports a variety of braille displays. Just connect a supported display, start VoiceOver, and you should have basic braille access. You can also assign commands to controls on the braille display via VoiceOver configuration. VoiceOver for Mac seems to be polarizing: some people like it, whereas others – especially former Windows users – complain ad nauseum. I’m more in the former category, while fully acknowledging bugs and limitations. Every operating system has those, especially in connection with accessibility. Accessibility-related bugs aside, MacOS is an excellent operating system. The only way to find out how well it fits your use cases, unfortunately, is to spend some time with it, and put aside the Windows knowledge while learning a quite different screen reader. Essentially, VoiceOver for Mac relies extensively on object-level navigation using screen reader commands, and only secondarily on keyboard navigation commands included in the system and applications. All of the usual UNIX commands and utilities are available, but they follow BSD syntax. I would recommend installing Homebrew, which provides an easy means of installing both MacOS applications and free software/open-source packages (but not BRLTTY). I currently have Linux, MacOS, Windows and iOS; I’ve worked with Android and ChromeOS to a much lesser extent, so I have used most of the currently popular operating systems. From: BRLTTY <brltty-boun...@brltty.app> on behalf of Julian Dreykorn <dreykorn.jul...@gmail.com> |
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