I've had exactly same experience with Sierra and Braille display. It's regressed from El Capitan. I'm glad someone else highlighted this, as I was quite confused and disorientated by what's happeend.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 4:31 AM Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I have been experiencing problems with Braille displays under sierra > and have reported them. So please report yours as well. Things are not > good for Braille users under Sierra, so we must continue to apply pressure > so that it doesn’t slip under the radar. Reading web pages with my Braille > display has become impossible. Even in itunes, in the web area, it’s not > possible to use my Braille display correctly to read the content. Often, > there will be no content of the voiceover cursor showing at all. So > Voiceover will read the content but it won’t show at all on the Braille > display. > > Andrew > > On 5 Nov 2016, at 06:28, Kat DeNicola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, All. I'm trying to use my Braille Sense u2 running firmware 8.5 as a > braille display through USB with my mac air running Sierra. I had no > problems when I did this on El Capitan. But now, what shows up on the > braille display often is not what is in the voiceover focus. For instance, > voiceover will say I'm on the desktop, and the braille display looks like > it's showing me what would be displayed in the app chooser. Panning on the > display also does not move me from line to line, but jumps me all over the > place, it seems, and the routing keys do not put the voiceover cursor where > it should. There is also a problem where there is sometimes a mix of > contracted and uncontracted braille, even on the same line, but I have it > set for contracted braille. I haven't changed any of my braille settings > since before I installed Sierra, and I doublechecked them. I think there's > an 8.6 firmware upgrade for the Braille Sense, but I'm not sure the update > would help or if it's a Sierra thing. Anyone else had similar experiences? > I'm not sure if I should call Apple Accessibility or not. I doubt they > would have any ideas, but I guess at least I could report it as a bug. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
