Hi there You need to take the braille display off the PacMate. Look under itand find the release key. This should result in taking the braille display off the PacMate, at least it does on BX PacMate. Then you need a USB cable, and you can plug the USB cable into the braille display and the other end into the Mac. Hopefully, when you do this, VoiceOver will recognize the PacMate display. It did the last time I plugged in a PacMate display. It better because I still have one that I want to use in an emergency. It doesn’t do Bluetooth, by the way, so forget it on an iOS device.
Gigi > On Jul 21, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Guys, > > I swear to God I'm about ready to pull my f***ing hair out over here! So is > my friend. > > I never ever have ever used a braille display before. My friend who flew > down to visit with me for a few weeks brought along with him a Packmate QX 40 > original USB braille display. This is not the up to date display. It's only > the classic model. He got it in 2004 if that helps. > > I have plugged it into my I5 Mac Mini Late 2012 system, running Yosemite > 10.10.4. This is not a public beta or the like. This is the official > available up to date release. I have also pulled the EFI firmware update > that just came down on July the 15th, if that makes any difference, although, > even before doing so, I still saw this issue. > > I have disabled all the status cells, and am using contracted braille, > therefore causing dot 7 8 braille to be disabled. > > In my Voiceover Utility, (VO+F8,) I have disabled the showing of the > Voiceover Cursor, although even when turned on, I'm still noticing this issue. > > I've reset Voiceover to all default settings, and even have imported my > friend's Voiceover settings from his macbook which did absolutely no good. > > The issue is that when I go into Text Edit, and create either a rich text, or > a plain txt document, either/or, which has carriage returns throughout the > file, I'm literally seeing the physical carriage return code on the display. > > So, for instance, say I open up Text Edit, and type the following: > > Hello, then after the letter o in hello is typed, I immediately hit return to > make a new line. > > Then on the next line of text, I write: > My name is Chris. > > OK, if you're reading this with a braille display currently, and you are in > uncontracted braille, let me type out literally what you'll see. Note to > nonbraille display users, the following line of text is going to look very > strange: > > ,hello1 my "n is ,*ris4 > > However, after the low d, (dots 2, 5, and 6,) for the period sign, I see the > letter j, (dots 2, 4, and 5,) plus in that same cell, dots 7 and 8. Just to > further! wackid things up, as if that isn't odd enough, if I move the literal > text edit insertion point to the end of the first line of text with > command+up arrow, followed by command+right arrow, that j+dots 7 and 8 now > turns into two cells. Both have dots 7 8 under them. Basically, now, > instead of just a letter j, I now see m, (dots 1, 3, and 4,) followed by the > letter j, (dots 2, 4, and 5.) > > So in other words, instead of seeing: > > Hello > My name is Chris. > > I see: > > cap sign, (dot 6,) helloj+dots 7 and 8my name is cap sign chris. > > All of that on one line of text. Move to the end of the line with the word > hello, and then it goes to: > > Hellomj+dots 7 and 8my name is Chris. > > Again, all on one line. No, I am not mistaking the j or mj with dots 7 and 8 > as the blinking cursor. That's just showing as a blinking dot 7, which is to > the right of the mj, or if at the start of the line, is under the dot 6 > capital sign. > > I've tried turning off contracted braille, and also have tried enabling and > disabling dot 7 8 braille. NO good. > > I've tried English US, and also have tried English Unified in Braille on > Voiceover Utility in the language popup button. They both are producing this > issue. > > I've rebooted the mac. NO good. I've unplugged and replugged the USB cord > both from the mac side, and from the display side. I've swapped out the USB > cable, and that didn't work either. > > I've thrown the thing across the room and then paid him back ten grand. LOL! > Only kidding on that one! I feel like I could! though? > > I called Apple Accessibility, 1-877-204-3930, Option 2 from IVR, and they > were stumped beyond belief! My friend using a white Polycarbon macbook mid > 2010, 13 inch also on Yosemite 10.10.4 official release is not having this > issue. > > We've looked in Text Edit's preferences, and compared our settings. All are > 100% identical. I've reset my settings. NO good. I'm totally out of > possibilities. I think Pages calls these things the display is showing, > "Invisibles." Pages isn't having this issue though. It is *only!* doing it > in Text Edit. My friend isn't having this issue at all. Not even! in Text > Edit. This isn't an assumption either. We very concreetly tried it, and > sure enough. It's not occurring on his system. > > The only thing I've not done is to delete the .plist file associated with > Text Edit. I'm not sure though where that file would be exactly, nor what it > would be called. I'm sure I could find it easily enough, but I've not gone > that far just quite yet. > > Aside that though, I am totally out of options! > > I've even looked under Accessibility within System Prefs, but see absolutely > nothing rellavent. > > Please please! can someone help before I go insane over here trying to figure > this out, or put my friend in a mental institution? 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