Re: Braille Displays for Mac OS X

[Cheryl Homiak]

TThere is some possibility that with a usb display or notetaker, you  
could compile the "screen" program that would work from the terminal;  
you have to crecompile it even though there is such a program already  
installed because you have to apply the brltty patch and follow the  
instructions for it in the brltty source tree. then you would start  
brltty and screen and have somee braille display support at least  
theoretically; I don't know if it's actually been tried in macosx.  
But I believe this would only give you access to whatever you could  
access through the "screen" program not to macosx itself. Brltty for  
the mac can be compiled now with some modification and there is usb  
support and serial support is being worked on (which is why I need to  
get my usbserial to behave!!!) but there is as yet no screen driver  
to read the screen so that we can use brltty with macosx. The various  
oses have to have a screen driver; don't confuse this with the  
"screen" program spoken of above. In other words, for now, unless you  
want to work on development, macosx can not be used with braille. At  
least this is my understanding of the present situation; I don't  
pretend to know about everything that might be in the works.

--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".