Also, many people at these adaptive tech companies want to sell windows software, so these people will point buyers to that. They will either not know about what a Mac will bbe like, or ignore that. On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
