yes it will On 19 Aug 2009, at 09:39, James & Nash wrote:
> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
