I have a display but I may be hitting different bugs than others so I wouldn't mind a list either. I have noticed that cursor routing is useless because there is no separate braille cursor or braille doesn't follow the system cursor it just moves the voiceover cursor which isn't what should happen. There's no way to tell if text is selected easily since dots 7 and 8 are used for the voiceover cursor as well as the highlighting of text. I don't understand what to do with these silly status cells at all. I turn them off on OS X and iOS because I don't understand how their information is at all useful especially on a small 18-cell display. Braille input is also equally useless on iOS and OS X because I braille too quickly and the driver appears to hang. I should also point out that I frequently work with autocorrect and dictation turned off because I still get input lag typing on qwerty as well but the braille translator makes input lag a lot. I'd sell this braille display to someone if I could find one for a reasonable price that I could put under the laptop or keyborad since I don't like the braille input function at all because it doesn't work at all in a useful way. Also USB serial support is broken in OS X so that you cannot use your braillle display in USB mode at least not with Refreshabraille even though the documentation claims it works. Bluetooth frequently drops on both iOS and OS X especially after sleep / wake so often the braille display will not connect at all and I have to revert to speech. Braille also doesn't work until after the user is logged in, nor does it work in recovery mode. There is no braille for emoji either. Some of this is probably user error because OS X and iOS probably handle braille differently than BRLTTY which is what I used to use. I moved to OS X to avoid Windows because I generally prefer UNIX shells and things and I thought maybe Apple had better accessibility when I played with it and in general I'm not unhappy with that decision. But it seems to me that the computer industry in general is releasing poorly written software for all users and so I'm thinking every OS is badly written and buggy so I'm giving Apple a pass on that one. It seems people want things in this world that give the delusion of working but don't actually work and that is ok if that's what people want. So I expect it to be horribly broken because that's what sells and I'm surprised that in general Apple tends to be less horribly broken than other companies but I am sure it's a design decision since the focus seems to be on data mining and tracking and accessibility just doesn't help them collect data or advertise so it means nothing. And braille is the bottom of the stack when it comes to that. I wrote Apple Accessibility telling them that I've got a lot of time and I could learn their architecture and help with braille testing but I got a form letter saying that they'd look into the bugs I reported so I left it at that. But I would like to know how to get the most out of braille on either the phone or the mac because I prefer not to use speech since it gets in the way of my creative process, especially thanks to Apple Music and several meditation apps being available on all devices. Don't take any of this as criticism or negativity I'm willing to help but I don't know what's constructive. I'm also betting that maybe I haven't explored something or don't fully understand some features so I'd be willing to take this off list for extended conversation if someone wants we could talk about how to get this stuff constructively fixed. I think Apple is trying to do the right thing I'm just not sure how we can help them. Yes it's a small user group but it might get larger very quickly if somehow we had easily accessible built-in working braille support to point people at. Sorry if this is a bit long I have only given the most severe bugs I've noticed. There's probably more I'm sure but I'm assuming the ones I encountered were user error mostly but someone make a list of bugs and we can hack this out. Thanks for reading and have fun times. I'll go away now unless there's a reply.
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