Hello Matthew, On 1 Sep 2010, at 18:30, Matthew Johnson wrote: > > I do however have a few questions: > 1: I have a focus 40 blue, does this work, including the bluetooth part of > it? can I enter text using it, and does it work in multiple languages, since > I read french, German, and Spanish braille on a regular basis. This particular Braille display was recently added to the supported devices, including using BlueTooth.
Multilingual Braille can be downloaded from: www.cecimac.org The website is mainly in French but it has an English language page. Once multilingual Braille is installed, you can choose your language in VoiceOver Utility under Braille. Contracted Braille is not available for languages other than American English. A new version of Multilingual Braille is under preparation at the moment and should be release within the next two weeks. Braille input also works with Multilingual Braille. > 2. Accessible language dictionary program? Does that exist and how complete > is it? Many people use Ultralingua. I can't comment on it as I don't use it. I just use Word Reference online or consult a massive print dictionary with my Optacon. > 3: reading pdf files: does that compare well to the adobe pdf in windows? I > have to read a lot of textbooks like this and it needs to work, including > copying parts of a pdf out to text edit for editing things. Preview works fine for reading PDF files, but if you don't like it, there's another application out there called Skim. > 4. how well do footnotes and research-necessary things work on the mac? I do > research papers and cannot afford any problems in this area. Pages, from the iWork09 suite, works very well. It can open and save to Word documents. Its native format is .pages. I use it all the time in my work as a translator. > 5. just in case any of you know...does the BBC IPlayer have a workaround? its > all flash! > The BBC seems to have done something horrible to its iPlayer recently. I used to be able to Listen Again to radio programmes but I'm not having much success with it at the moment. Television programmes don't work at all. You may have to have a Windows partition on your Mac just for that. I hope that has been helpful. Cheers, Anne A Brit living in France. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
