the pacmate bx40 is such an animal and he has it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Cavendish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 4:54 PM Subject: Re: Deafblind users ?
Dear James, Pleased to meet you on the list. I'm totally blind and use a braille display with Voiceover speech on a Macbook. There is a list of currently supported Braille displays on Apple accessibility website. I'm afraid that only some USB braille displays are supported. Don't buy anything yet, until you know that you have a braille display supported by Leopard. I've never tried to use just a braille display without actually also listening to the speech feedback. I will try to seee. I'm also based in the K. Unless you have heard from others on the list already, I will try to find the list of currently supported braille displays and let you have it. You could in the meantime try www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover With best wishes Simon CavendishOn 14 Jan 2008, at 07:52, James Gallagher wrote: > hello all on the macvoiceover list. > > I am James from the United Kingdom. > I am just about to order myself a new iMac > > Imac 20 inch > 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM > 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo > 500GB Serial ATA Drive. > > I have been a PC user for a very long time > was using the old dos system until windows came along. > > I am going to take my first steps to using Macs. > > I am a Deafblind person. > with the new Leopard O.S. that will deafblind people use Braille > display's within Leopard. Do you think that I would be able to move > over to a Mac, or is Leopard not up to it yet. > > I now my way about PC's help to fix family PC's when they are not > working right, > I have no sight and can't hear speech software so a Braille display > is my only way to use the Mac. > For me I am looking Forward to getting my head around the new mac > system and the way it works. > > But as mac users here do you think a Deafblind person would be able to > use one. I would be the Braille display from a PacMate BX400. > > have two PowerBraille displays a 40 and a 80 but they are the old > version with no USB. > > I would be very grateful for your help here. > I have been looking into them for a good few months after Leopard was > made available. So I think I now what I am getting into but just a > little unsure to take that step. > I have always wished a could have a Mac but for me they where not > Accessible. until Now. > > I have read that Quicksilver lets you start applications from the > keyboard > is this any good for us. > > But are there any deafblind people on this list that are use a Mac. > > I am Pleased that I have became a member of this list. > > all the very best to you. > > Yours > James > > The highest result of education is tolerance. > Hellen Keller > > -- > James Gallagher > > A-Z to Deafblindness <http://www.deafblind.com> > A Deafblindness Web Resource <http://www.deafblind.co.uk> > Learn more about Braille Chess at <http://www.BrailleChess.net> > My Guide Dogs <http://www.wilma.co.uk> > For the Sighted Hearing my WAP site is at <http://tagtag.com/ > deafblind> >
