I'm not seeing this with my set up. On my Macbook Pro using Lion it
works fine. I plug it in to the USB port, press a cursor routing
button and it works fine. well at least it works in terms of reading
braille; I have had no joy writing with it. The cursor wheels also
work fine for me. Go into the voiceOver utility, to the braille
category, then in braille displays have a look at the settings.
Perhaps change the primary braille display setting to, use all braille
displays. I haven't got my Mac with me where I am at the moment, so I
can't be more specific.

Let me know how you get on.


On 05/10/2011, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
> You might want to use it with Bluetooth only. There is a bug that doesn't
> allow it to utilize the USB properly. I can get the USB to work, but only
> after the display has been idle for about fifteen minutes. Also, in USB
> mode, the whiz wheels do not function.
>
> HTH,
> Teresa
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:47 PM, David Eagle wrote:
>
>> When you plug it in it should automatically show something on the
>> display. Mine said Battery Charging. To get it to show you what's
>> appearing on your computer though, press one of the cursor routing
>> buttons. The two rows above your display. This works fine for me.
>>
>> On 05/10/2011, Becky Knaub <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Do Focus 40 Blue braille displays work with the MAC?
>>> If they do as I think they do Could anyone tell me how to make My MBP
>>> detect
>>> the display when its plugged in the USB port? It won't detect the display
>>> either way ad I have tried everything I can think of.
>>> Since I really need the display to work so I can edit my papers for
>>> school I
>>> would appreciate if anyone could help.
>>>
>>> Second Is it possible to play ogg files on the mac and if so what version
>>> of
>>> the software would I need to get for an MBP with Lion on it?
>>>
>>> Thanks ,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Becky
>>>
>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:41 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Today's Topic Summary
>>>> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/topics
>>>>
>>>> Selecting in safari [11 Updates]
>>>> THank you, Esther [1 Update]
>>>> The continuing adventures of David eagle and his Apple Mac computer.
>>>> this
>>>> time it's about Sendspace. [2 Updates]
>>>> Question about Conversation View in YoruFukurou [1 Update]
>>>> update on searching mailbox for specific messages in lion [1 Update]
>>>> ChromeVox is now on the Chrome Web Store! [1 Update]
>>>> Voice Over And Safari [2 Updates]
>>>> Option-click [1 Update]
>>>> accessing instant message while in a voice chat in skype [1 Update]
>>>> Am I a Member of this group? [3 Updates]
>>>> I can't download anything all of a sudden [1 Update]
>>>> Topic: Selecting in safari
>>>> Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:06AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hey all.
>>>> I have important information on a facebook message and I need to select
>>>> everything from it. For some reason however, this isn't seeming possible
>>>> and I'm frustrated about it. If anyone could give me a hand with this
>>>> please let me know. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>> Sent from my macbook pro
>>>>
>>>> Alex Hall <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:24AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> The way I've found to do it is:
>>>> 1. Interact with the text and move to the start of the desired
>>>> selection.
>>>> 2. Hit vo-enter.
>>>> 3. Use normal commands to move from the start to the end of the
>>>> selection.
>>>> 4. Hit vo-enter again, then cmd-c to copy.
>>>>
>>>> There's probably an easier way, but that is all I could find on Google
>>>> when I tried selecting the other day.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Have a great day,
>>>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
>>>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
>>>>
>>>> Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:33AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi Alex, I just tried, and VO didn't speak anything when I was selecting
>>>> things. Then I hit command C and it didn't work. Not sure why though.
>>>> Thanks for the response.
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>> Sent from my macbook pro
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-10-05, at 8:24 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alex Hall <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:35AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Did you interact with the text? I also got no speech and nothing
>>>> selected, but it was because I hadn't interacted with what I wanted to
>>>> copy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Have a great day,
>>>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
>>>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
>>>>
>>>> Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:39AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Yep, interacted with the text, it said selecting, then I selected what I
>>>> wanted to, and hit VO enter and hit command c and it dinged at me.
>>>> Matt
>>>> Sent from my macbook pro
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-10-05, at 8:35 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alex Hall <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:44AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Once you interact, press vo-enter before selecting, then use normal
>>>> navigation (not holding down shift) to move to the end and hit
>>>> vo-enter again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Have a great day,
>>>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
>>>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
>>>>
>>>> Matthew Campbell <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:49AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hey Matt.
>>>> One thing that you might want to try is this.
>>>> First, get VO to where the text is you want to copy
>>>> Then, press VO shift C to copy the last phrase to the clipboard.
>>>> Finally, go to text edit or where ever and paste
>>>> Just keep doing that over and over until you have all that you want.
>>>> It's
>>>> kind of annoying way to do it but...
>>>> One thing to keep in mind is that when VO reads text in safari, it's
>>>> reading paragraph by paragraph.
>>>> HTH.
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-10-05, at 8:33 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:54AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hey, that worked. Thanks for that. Kind of sucks that you can't just do
>>>> select all and copy. Ah well.
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>> Sent from my macbook pro
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-10-05, at 8:49 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alex Hall <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:55AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> What about vo-shift-a? I seem to recall that copying the chunk of text
>>>> last spoken, not just the phrase.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Have a great day,
>>>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
>>>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
>>>>
>>>> Matthew Campbell <[email protected]> Oct 05 10:08AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>> According to the keyboard help, VO shift A only slects it. However, I've
>>>> never tried it before.
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-10-05, at 8:55 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Søren Jensen" <[email protected]> Oct 05 04:17PM +0200 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> You can do the following which might work:
>>>> Use the latest version of webkit.
>>>> 1: Find the text you wanna copy
>>>> 2: press Vo command f5
>>>> 3: press Vo command shift space to hold down the mouse button
>>>> 4: Hold down shift and press the down arrow to select the text you want.
>>>> 6: Press command c to copy
>>>> 7. Press Vo command shift space again to release the mouse button.
>>>> Hope that will work for you.
>>>> Best regards:
>>>> Søren Jensen
>>>> Mail & MSN:
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> Website:
>>>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
>>>>
>>>> Den 05/10/2011 kl. 16.08 skrev Matthew Campbell:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: THank you, Esther
>>>> Allison Manzino <[email protected]> Oct 05 09:48AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi Esther,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your helpful post about my query with Itunes. I really
>>>> appreciate all your help and instructions. It worked like a charm. Have
>>>> a
>>>> great day.
>>>>
>>>> Allison
>>>>
>>>> My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar!
>>>>
>>>> Topic: The continuing adventures of David eagle and his Apple Mac
>>>> computer. this time it's about Sendspace.
>>>> Alex Hall <[email protected]> Oct 05 07:55AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the cmd-shift-g command, that will really make a difference!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Have a great day,
>>>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
>>>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
>>>>
>>>> Garth Humphreys <[email protected]> Oct 05 11:40PM +1000 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi David
>>>>
>>>> As another new user to the Mac I can certainly understand your
>>>> frustration. The Safari busy busy thing is seriously annoying. Stronger
>>>> words would, of course, be called for if we weren't in polite company :)
>>>>
>>>> As for Finder, at first I called it Loser as I couldn't use it to find a
>>>> thing. Now however after about 3 weeks it seems completely fine and I
>>>> can
>>>> be just as efficient in it as on Win 7 / XP. I pretty much ignore the
>>>> side
>>>> bar. It can be useful however the key board shortcuts seem quicker to
>>>> me.
>>>> As someone else has said try using column view. Command+3 will get you
>>>> into this view. When in this view you can navigate through folders in a
>>>> standard tree structure. You need to make sure you have quick nab off.
>>>> The
>>>> up & down arrows will take through the folders at a given level and the
>>>> left and right arrows can be used to collapse and expand folders.
>>>> Combine
>>>> this with some keyboard shortcuts and all is good, at least in my
>>>> opinion.
>>>> Command+shift+C will take you to the top computer level where you can
>>>> see
>>>> the various drives and network.
>>>> Command+shift+H will take you to your home folder, i.e., inside the
>>>> users
>>>> folder.
>>>> Command+shift+A will take you to your Applications folder.
>>>> Command+Option+L will take you into your downloads folder. I'm not sure
>>>> but maybe this is supposed to be the exception that proves the rule :)
>>>> Command+shift+O will take you to your documents
>>>> Command+shift+D will go to your desktop.
>>>>
>>>> There are of course others as well.
>>>>
>>>> anyway I hope this helps a bit. You certainly aren't alone with your
>>>> frustrations. I am still glad I have windows at work where I need to get
>>>> work done.
>>>> So far I haven't found Safari on the Mac as good as it is on IOS,
>>>> especially on the iPad where I think it is fantastic. Then again I got
>>>> my
>>>> iPad 1 on the day it was first released and I have only been using OSX
>>>> for
>>>> a few weeks.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck
>>>> Garth
>>>>
>>>> On 05/10/2011, at 6:32 AM, David Eagle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: Question about Conversation View in YoruFukurou
>>>> Robert Carter <[email protected]> Oct 05 08:22AM -0500 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>> You can fix this problem by clicking the zoom button.
>>>>
>>>> Robert Carter
>>>> On Oct 4, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Marc Workman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: update on searching mailbox for specific messages in lion
>>>> Paul Erkens <[email protected]> Oct 05 03:09PM +0200 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ioana,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Apple mail on Lion in the new look, classic view off. I tried
>>>> the suggestion, but when on the message table, without any interacting,
>>>> it
>>>> won't work. Each key press of the search text sends a bang from the
>>>> speakers. Could it be that you are reading mail in classic view?
>>>>
>>>> Regarding the work around: I didn't know about that feature but if you
>>>> are
>>>> looking for specific messages it's not too big a deal to temporarily
>>>> turn
>>>> on classic view. Thanks for the idea. I'm hoping that outside classic
>>>> view, there's a solution as well. I tried moving the mouse over to the
>>>> message table, but that doesn't seem to make a difference either. I
>>>> think
>>>> I'll drop [email protected] a line about it.
>>>> Paul.
>>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:39 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: ChromeVox is now on the Chrome Web Store!
>>>> Garth Humphreys <[email protected]> Oct 05 10:39PM +1000 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi Kevin
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the instructions for deleting the extension prior to
>>>> reinstalling from the web store. It worked perfectly. Do I understand
>>>> correctly that one benefit of changing to the web store version is that
>>>> the extension will auto update in the same way that Chrome does?
>>>>
>>>> Garth
>>>>
>>>> On 05/10/2011, at 12:06 PM, Kevin Chao wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: Voice Over And Safari
>>>> Michael Dailey <[email protected]> Oct 05 07:19AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> I am using Lion on an iMac.
>>>>
>>>> How do I get Voice Over not to start reading everything on a page, and
>>>> just move along when I TAB?
>>>>
>>>> The VO curser starts jumping all over the screen, and I can't figure out
>>>> how to get it back to where I want it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> David Griffith <[email protected]> Oct 05 01:31PM +0100 ^
>>>>
>>>> I think lyon can amend this behaviour by going to the Voiceover Utility
>>>> settings navigating down to web and then pressing tab to get to
>>>> tab settings. Vo right until you ghet to page loading and then uncheck
>>>> the
>>>> section which gets Voiceover to automatically read web pages. On 5 Oct
>>>> 2011, at 12:19, Michael Dailey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: Option-click
>>>> Paul Erkens <[email protected]> Oct 05 02:28PM +0200 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi Austin and Christer,
>>>> Option clicking and control clicking something, can indeed be done using
>>>> the trackpad, and it isn't a problem for voiceover users, although it
>>>> is,
>>>> with some other screen readers.
>>>> 1. With the vo cursor, find the element that you want to option or
>>>> control
>>>> click on.
>>>> 2. Now, tell voiceover to get the mouse pointer over to this spot on the
>>>> screen, using command vo f5. vo is the same as control option. So, the
>>>> complete command to get the mouse pointer to where your voiceover cursor
>>>> is, is to hold down 3 keys, being option, control and command, and then
>>>> pressing f5.
>>>> 3. Once the mouse is there, Perform the control, or the option click, as
>>>> follows. First hold down either option or control, depending on what you
>>>> need, and then press on the lower left corner of the trackpad to make
>>>> the
>>>> click happen.
>>>>
>>>> If a sighted user wants to click on something, they do it with the mouse
>>>> button. The left one, in windows. To do the same thing in voiceover,
>>>> with
>>>> the voiceover cursor on an object, we can hit vo space to perform the
>>>> normal click. However, voiceover does not have a built-in command for an
>>>> option click or a control click. That is why we need to do the same
>>>> thing
>>>> as a sighted user would, rather than having a dedicated voiceover
>>>> command
>>>> for it. Bring the mouse pointer to the spot, hold control or option, and
>>>> while holding it, click the mouse, or the trackpad.
>>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: accessing instant message while in a voice chat in skype
>>>> "Vítor Oliveira" <[email protected]> Oct 05 01:08PM +0100 ^
>>>>
>>>> Hi: To do it more easily, press vo plus J. The first time you do it you
>>>> jump to sidebar tab, the second you will jump to html content. Just
>>>> interact with it and press vo plus end to go to the last line. To return
>>>> to the editing area, just press vo plus J again. Regards.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vítor Oliveira
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A 05/10/2011, às 11:24, Patrick Neazer escreveu:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: Am I a Member of this group?
>>>> Michael Dailey <[email protected]> Oct 05 07:31AM -0400 ^
>>>>
>>>> I went to the discussion page, and it said I could not post because I
>>>> was
>>>> not a member.
>>>>
>>>> I am getting email updates daily, I filled out the application. Am I
>>>> suppose to log in somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mike Dailey
>>>>
>>>> Paul Erkens <[email protected]> Oct 05 01:54PM +0200 ^
>>>>
>>>> Michael Dailey,
>>>> Yes you seem to be a member. Your message got through to this list.
>>>> Paul.
>>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Michael Dailey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mike Dailey <[email protected]> Oct 05 04:59AM -0700 ^
>>>>
>>>> Never mind, I was not signed into Google.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Topic: I can't download anything all of a sudden
>>>> David Eagle <[email protected]> Oct 04 11:39PM +0100 ^
>>>>
>>>> Thank a lot for that tip.
>>>>
>>>>
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