Aggree braille in OS X is atrocious. This is one of the reasons I still keep around a Windows installation.
Yours truly, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my 13-inch MacBook Pro > On 3 Oct 2015, at 4:50 am, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > Well maybe you’re right but its very frustrating that braille hasn’t come > very far on the mac. > /A >> 2 okt. 2015 kl. 14:14 skrev Scott Granados <[email protected]>: >> >> If Apple were a european company or especially German company they would >> have faked it so the braille support only worked in the government agency’s >> office responsible for certifying braille support. It would have failed in >> the real world. Sort of the same philosophy as the German Auto >> manufacturers and pollution control.:) >> >> >>> 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. > > -- > 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. 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