Hello Anouk, Today someone from optelec (the people that make the bc640 and also sold me my curren tlaptop and hal my screenreader for windows) was here to fetch my laptop for repaisr, he was rather doubtful wether or not the bc640 would work well on mac os x since there were no drivers and he was doubtful if all the functions would work well. This obviously has me a bit concerned. Especially since the folks over at optelec dont support mac os x at all while their braille display does work with it. This especially worries me since I am a longtime diehard braille user, no speech for me.
It is not very surprising that the folks over at Optilek do not support Macs - very few folks do, either in the blindness community or generally. Don't be to concerned though, you can check the growing list of Braille Displays on Apple's website. Also, it might be possible for you to port over BRLTTY from Linux which supports over 40 or so displays if I remember correctly. Take care James ----- Original Message ----- From: a radix To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:30 AM Subject: apple os x and braille displays Hello, I did try the macbook pro in the store with my bc640 but rather briefly, basically I just checked if I could get braille and that did work. Today someone from optelec (the people that make the bc640 and also sold me my curren tlaptop and hal my screenreader for windows) was here to fetch my laptop for repaisr, he was rather doubtful wether or not the bc640 would work well on mac os x since there were no drivers and he was doubtful if all the functions would work well. This obviously has me a bit concerned. Especially since the folks over at optelec dont support mac os x at all while their braille display does work with it. This especially worries me since I am a longtime diehard braille user, no speech for me. I guess I will find out for myself when my macbook pro gets here. Greetings, Anouk, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
