Hello, yes, naturally I checked the list on the apple site before I started
this adventure and it is on it and I also checked in the store but as I said,
rather briefly. I think indeed it does work with brlty on linux but I dont
think it would be practical to port it since then youw ould still have to get
it to interact with voiceover. Anyway, I am not a programmer.
I guess I will find out in about 1.5 week.
Greetings, Anouk,
----- Original Message -----
From: James & Nash
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: apple os x and braille displays
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,
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