I think the whole misspelled thing in the status bar could be fixed with dots 7 or 8 showing under the word.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 5, 2015, at 7:50 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a well presented message and reflects a lot of my feeling as well. I > do not have the driver problems you have, I’m using a Focus 40 Blue but the > cursor routing is a real problem. I find the key assignment features > difficult to master, things are really inconsistent like I could map space w > to close a window for example but it won’t work in mail yet it will in Text > edit etc, mapping across applications is not consistent for me. Absolutely > agree on the status cells and I disabled them as well on my 40 cell display. > > >> On Oct 4, 2015, at 8:08 PM, Blee Blat <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. 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