If you want podcasts, the below can get you started. http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/using-braille-displays-mac For something more advanced, like assigning braille commands to http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/assigning-braille-keyboard-command-actions-and-changing-behavior-activities-mac There are guides available if you need written content as well.
HTH, Scott On 9/4/14, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > Hi Joe > I think all you really need is a list of commands. I may have missed > something here, but what braille display do you have? Some of them have > sections in their manuals that give a list of commands for IOS and sometimes > for the Mac. A lot of the IOS braille commands work on the Mac. My Braille > Edge 40 has a list like that. > > Gigi > > On Sep 4, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Joe Quinn <jdawg1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there some sort of tutorial or something that shows people how to use >> braille on the Mac? I love using it on the iPhone, but wanna learn how to >> use it on the Mac. I mean, come on, I bought those things :-) >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Sep 4, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Scott Davert <scottslistm...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> It's usable, but there are some bugs and you just have to work around >>> them until they get fixed. As noted before, don't expect it to be like >>> what you would find running JAWS or something on Windows. If you have >>> used braille on iOS, the experience is fairly close to that in terms >>> of typing with the display. >>> >>> Scott >>> >>>> On 9/3/14, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> Well, i could say a lot about braille on the mac. Most of it is really >>>> negative. >>>> Tbut i can make a summary. >>>> Don't expect it to be like using jaws with windows or any linux based >>>> screenreader. >>>> They have a lot to improve which i've tried to tell them. >>>> Hopfully they will listen. >>>> /A >>>>> 1 sep 2014 kl. 20:02 skrev Gerard Doody <jerrydood...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>> Hi There, I think it depends on which display you are using. I have >>>>> found >>>>> that for use on a computer, the shorter ones, with 12, 18, even 32 >>>>> characters might not suite. However, if you have a 40 cell it works >>>>> pretty >>>>> well. Oh, also it depends on you skills using both the mac and >>>>> braille. >>>>> >>>>> I am a life-long braille user and I have connected a focus 40 and a >>>>> braillepen12 to my macbookpro. hth >>>>> Jerry Doody >>>>> jerrydood...@gmail.com >>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 11:31 am, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Here's a question to you who uses braille displays on a dayly base. >>>>> Would >>>>> you say it's easiely possible to use braille as the main output device? >>>>> Or >>>>> would you say braille on the Mac is too buggy and doesn't work to >>>>> well? >>>>> >>>>> For example: I saw braille used in Wikipedia and it was a catastrophy. >>>>> But >>>>> maybe you know a way of using it efficiantly. 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