Hey Anouk, Seeing as it's on the list of supported displays, you should be good to go. Don't worry too much about what the guy at Optelec said for now, at a guess he's just another case of people thinking every OS needs a ton of drivers and instalations etc to get anything to work like Windows does. One of the things Apple have gotten pretty good at is making supported hardware just work out of the box, as you saw when you plugged your DC640 in at the store.
Scott On 8/19/09, a radix <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
