No, it's not just you. Braille support is still sub-par in many cases on OSX, with bugs I've reported 2 years ago still not fixed. Because I only have one mac, and am heavily dependent on it, I cannot put betas on it or risk upgrading because I'm afraid of the bugs I may encounter. I'm still running Yosemite, and am a bit reluctant to do this upgrade because I'm so dependent on braille.
Scott On 10/2/15, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe not but we don’t lie about it either.:) That whole VW / AUDI / > PORSCHE thing cracks me up especially from a country that claims to be so > green. > > I don’t know about the braille literacy thing either to be fair. Now this > may have changed, I fully admit when I was in public school we still had > public schools that were worth while and they hadn’t degraded to the point > they are now but I as well as all the blind folks in my state at least > received fantastic braille training as well as mobility and each blind > student received a full free ride to college up to the cost of the degree if > it was offered in our state school or full cost if the degree was only > available outside the state or at certain universities like special > technical degrees for example. Bringing this back on topic as blind > students we were also encouraged to work with the computers which at the > time were Apple 2 series. I also had a blind teacher, in the states I > believe they are called itinerate teachers or resource teachers who work > with blind and other disabled students to augment the class room. Maybe > things have changed but at least when I went to school we had a pretty good > deal? I see a lot of European blind engineers on different lists so I > suspect you have something similarly forward thinking available across the > pond? > > Oh and to the original poster and you, I’m in total agreement. I’m not sure > if the problem is that Apple doesn’t produce the hardware, I don’t suspect > that it’s but what ever the reason the braille support is lacking and > seriously lacking at that. What’s interesting is the support is quite a bit > better on the phone. Braille at least with the focus 40 I’m using on the > iPhone isn’t half bad, on the Mac though it’s just about unusable. Could be > the guy behind the keyboard (pointing at myself) but others have agreed so I > don’t think it’s just me. > > > > >> On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Nah Anders, I feel your pain completely. Even iOS has acceptable braille >> support, so it’s not as if they couldn’t port that over to OS X. Clearly >> nobody at Apple uses or cares about braille. Probably because it doesn’t >> make them any money from hardware sales. Kinda tragic. >> >> Hey Scott, you can stop trolling now. The grand old US of A isn’t exactly >> known for its braille literacy or deep regard for environmentalism either. >> :) >> >> -- >> 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.
