What I have noticed is, that when you uncheck the box that says "use dots 7 and 8 to indicate cursor, I have no indication in Braille as to where the cursor is at all. "It's not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me. I need a majority." Adlai Stevenson [email protected]
On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Erik Burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I think this is different by design. I agree with you. It needs to be > rethough to improve the functionality. The theory though is that whatever is > in the voiceover cursor is highlighted. You can use this feature to copy > large blocks of tedt, track the blindness perspective around the screen and > more. It's very useful in a practical sense. It's just that the feature of > having the contents of the voiceover cursor highlighted nagates using the > braille display to write some codes or view some real features of the screen. > > So what's needed is a braille cursor independent of the voiceover cursor > which can track either the mouse, active, or vo cursors as desired. Then the > contents ocf the vo cursor could be highlighted, while the contents of the > braille cursor could render what's on the screen. > > Best, > > > William Windels <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > About braille and osx, I find it frustrating that voiceover is underlining > the braille with dot's 7 and 8 in so many cases. > e.g. in menu-items, in read-only text and perhaps in other places. > > I don't know how it exactly works but, when it's underlined without specific > reason: > - capital letters can't be showed on the braille display, > - marked text can't be shown as marked text since dots 7 and 8 are always > present. > - Like in windows, with screenreader, you can define which lay-out should be > underlined, e.g. bold, italic, … text. > - you can't see the place of the cursor on the braille display… > > I know, you can check out dots 7 and 8 on the braille panel in voiceover > utility but when you do this, you will not have any off the advantages as > described above. > > So, my questions to you all: > are there any ways to have > the advantages like described above? > If others have also the same frustrations as me, what can we do to push apple > on a efficient way? > If you want to post to accessibility about this , use the followup number > 234596995 > > Kind regards , > William Windels > > ERIK burggraafEbony ConsultingI am currently on the road and staying in touch > on my handheld. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
