To the best of my knowledge, it is still possible to compile and run BRLTTY under MacOS. I haven’t tried it, however.VoiceOver for MacOS supports a variety of braille displays. Just connect a supported display, start VoiceOver, and you should have basic braille access. You can also assign commands to controls on the braille display via VoiceOver configuration.VoiceOver for Mac seems to be polarizing: some people like it, whereas others – especially former Windows users – complain ad nauseum. I’m more in the former category, while fully acknowledging bugs and limitations. Every operating system has those, especially in connection with accessibility. Accessibility-related bugs aside, MacOS is an excellent operating system. The only way to find out how well it fits your use cases, unfortunately, is to spend some time with it, and put aside the Windows knowledge while learning a quite different screen reader. Essentially, VoiceOver for Mac relies extensively on object-level navigation using screen reader commands, and only secondarily on keyboard navigation commands included in the system and applications. All of the usual UNIX commands and utilities are available, but they follow BSD syntax. I would recommend installing Homebrew, which provides an easy means of installing both MacOS applications and free software/open-source packages (but not BRLTTY).I currently have Linux, MacOS, Windows and iOS; I’ve worked with Android and ChromeOS to a much lesser extent, so I have used most of the currently popular operating systems. From: BRLTTY on behalf of Julian Dreykorn Date: Friday, September 22, 2023 at 08:25To: brltty@brltty.app Subject: [BRLTTY] Slightly OT: Braille support on MacOSHi all, sorry for the slightly off-topic quiestion, but I believe that here may be some Braille-familiar users knowing a bit more about MacOS than I. Currently, I use Windows primarily, and whenever I have the option to work in the CLI I use Linux. Speech is nice to have, but I rely primarily on Braille, and in the CLI I'm completely without speech. Now since I most likely need a new laptop, I thought of getting a Macbook, since I'm impressed of the very good quality of the speakers, the power of the M2, and if I want to use the Logic DAW then I actually don't have another choice. But how is the Brialle support? Everyone I asked just told me that it's possible to connect a Braille display, but they work primarily with speech. Learning new shortcuts and apps would be fully OK for me, getting speech-dependent wouldn't. So, do you guys have any experiences to share? I'd be happy hearing from you. All the best, Julian ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@brltty.app For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
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