BTW, I meant that tongue and cheek, I am in total agreement with you. Apple’s braille support needs a lot of work and it’s inexcusable how bad it is now.
> On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:11 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > Oh dear. > Soon i will give up on this as they do not seem to prioritize braille at all. > If apple was a german or European company there’s no doubt that the braille > support will be better. > It took us forever to get good braille support for Jaws. > Also for window eyes but its there. > Nvda has support for braille displays but braille support in the sense of > navigating seems not to be able yet. > Dolphin has good support and orca for linux. > Still mac is not very well supported in braille. > Its a shame and i will really let them know that. > Sorry for my offensive attack here but i am so tired of this. > THey just get back to you saying thanks for your report we will pass this on > to blablabla. > I am pissed off but i hope things will be better. > Still optemistic though. > /A >> 1 okt. 2015 kl. 08:33 skrev William Windels <[email protected]>: >> >> Hello all, >> I was reading the bug and feature report of Kris , thx for that. >> As announced in that blog, there was not much braille testing with 10.11 >> while this is for me and others important. >> >> Some first remarks: >> 1. It happens often that I have braille on the display but I can’t move >> around. The trick seems to be that I have to switch to another program and >> then I should come back. A kind of screen refreshing is needed here perhaps? >> >> 2. I turn vo-cursor on the braille display off because dots 7 and 8 are >> used for capitals and some computer signs. >> When this is turned off, I can’t see on the display which application has >> the focus while switching from app to app with command+tab. (Yes, I can hear >> it but sometimes I don’t use sound if I am in a course. >> I suggested accessibility to put the selected program on the most left >> position on the display or, like in windows with jaws, only the selected >> program should appear on the display while switching from one program to >> another. >> >> 3. Not all controls like radiobuttons , checkboxes, comboboxes, edit-fields >> , are presented with symbols on the display. Mostly, they are fully written >> in dutch “keuzerondje=radiobutton, aankruisvakje=checkbox, >> keuzelijst=combobox … >> This should be represented with symbols like { }/{x} [ ] [x] ( )/(x) … >> I subpose that the controls like above, are presented with this kind of >> symbols when the interface-language is set on English. >> This is een old question I think but still not changed. >> >> Any comments or reports to apple accessibility are very welcom >> >> Kind regards, >> William Windels >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
