Mac in general is just lacking in so many things. The screenreader still has no real OCR solution. Word processing is abysmal, and the terminal leaves a lot to be desired. If it weren't for how the Mac allows for recording audio with programs like Audio Hijack I would have been gone years ago.
-----Original Message----- From: 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2025 8:41 PM To: via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: I am done for now with the Mac. You’re not wrong, honestly. Braille on macOS has always seemed to be vestigial, at best, in a way that even iOS Braille isn’t. It’s just tech debt, I fear, that keeps VoiceOver on macOS from being truly great, and nowhere is that more evident than with Braille, which it’s better to have than not, but is clearly behind other screen readers. I am looking at a future Braille display that’s not a Focus from Freedom Scientific, and it comes down to a toss-up between Humanware Brailliant BI40X and Orbit Reader 40. Astonishingly, macOS still doesn’t support Orbit Reader using its native protocol, only through its VarioUltra emulation, as best I can tell. This is very disappointing, to say the least of it, although it gladdens my fleshy heart that Orbit Research implemented the feature in a display of such economical cost at all—so much so, in fact, that I might just wander off and buy one, in spite of that consideration. We must reward that kind of empowering work, I think. As for BRLTTY, yup, I use it every single day; my Mac is often connected via USB to my Focus but not driving it, and a VM with a textmode Linux environment is being used instead to do all the command line things. It’s awesome. You want this over the paltry Terminal support in macOS if you’re using Braille. Good luck on your travels in Windows land. I think you will find, inevitably, that it has downsides … but there’s no denying the superiority of Braille support. -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/237D0EED-6A69-4E70-BB02-93D65B7E2FD7%40me.com. -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/024001dbc20f%24661805f0%24324811d0%24%40gmail.com.
