It is probably the braille display. As the original model, it does not have any updated firmware drivers built-in to it, and it has not been supported for several years.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Jul 2015, at 08:49, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Guys, > > I swear to God I'm about ready to pull my f***ing hair out over here! So is > my friend. > > I never ever have ever used a braille display before. My friend who flew > down to visit with me for a few weeks brought along with him a Packmate QX 40 > original USB braille display. This is not the up to date display. It's only > the classic model. He got it in 2004 if that helps. > > I have plugged it into my I5 Mac Mini Late 2012 system, running Yosemite > 10.10.4. This is not a public beta or the like. This is the official > available up to date release. I have also pulled the EFI firmware update > that just came down on July the 15th, if that makes any difference, although, > even before doing so, I still saw this issue. > > I have disabled all the status cells, and am using contracted braille, > therefore causing dot 7 8 braille to be disabled. > > In my Voiceover Utility, (VO+F8,) I have disabled the showing of the > Voiceover Cursor, although even when turned on, I'm still noticing this issue. > > I've reset Voiceover to all default settings, and even have imported my > friend's Voiceover settings from his macbook which did absolutely no good. > > The issue is that when I go into Text Edit, and create either a rich text, or > a plain txt document, either/or, which has carriage returns throughout the > file, I'm literally seeing the physical carriage return code on the display. > > So, for instance, say I open up Text Edit, and type the following: > > Hello, then after the letter o in hello is typed, I immediately hit return to > make a new line. > > Then on the next line of text, I write: > My name is Chris. > > OK, if you're reading this with a braille display currently, and you are in > uncontracted braille, let me type out literally what you'll see. Note to > nonbraille display users, the following line of text is going to look very > strange: > > ,hello1 my "n is ,*ris4 > > However, after the low d, (dots 2, 5, and 6,) for the period sign, I see the > letter j, (dots 2, 4, and 5,) plus in that same cell, dots 7 and 8. Just to > further! wackid things up, as if that isn't odd enough, if I move the literal > text edit insertion point to the end of the first line of text with > command+up arrow, followed by command+right arrow, that j+dots 7 and 8 now > turns into two cells. Both have dots 7 8 under them. Basically, now, > instead of just a letter j, I now see m, (dots 1, 3, and 4,) followed by the > letter j, (dots 2, 4, and 5.) > > So in other words, instead of seeing: > > Hello > My name is Chris. > > I see: > > cap sign, (dot 6,) helloj+dots 7 and 8my name is cap sign chris. > > All of that on one line of text. Move to the end of the line with the word > hello, and then it goes to: > > Hellomj+dots 7 and 8my name is Chris. > > Again, all on one line. No, I am not mistaking the j or mj with dots 7 and 8 > as the blinking cursor. That's just showing as a blinking dot 7, which is to > the right of the mj, or if at the start of the line, is under the dot 6 > capital sign. > > I've tried turning off contracted braille, and also have tried enabling and > disabling dot 7 8 braille. NO good. > > I've tried English US, and also have tried English Unified in Braille on > Voiceover Utility in the language popup button. They both are producing this > issue. > > I've rebooted the mac. NO good. I've unplugged and replugged the USB cord > both from the mac side, and from the display side. I've swapped out the USB > cable, and that didn't work either. > > I've thrown the thing across the room and then paid him back ten grand. LOL! > Only kidding on that one! I feel like I could! though? > > I called Apple Accessibility, 1-877-204-3930, Option 2 from IVR, and they > were stumped beyond belief! My friend using a white Polycarbon macbook mid > 2010, 13 inch also on Yosemite 10.10.4 official release is not having this > issue. > > We've looked in Text Edit's preferences, and compared our settings. All are > 100% identical. I've reset my settings. NO good. I'm totally out of > possibilities. I think Pages calls these things the display is showing, > "Invisibles." Pages isn't having this issue though. It is *only!* doing it > in Text Edit. My friend isn't having this issue at all. Not even! in Text > Edit. This isn't an assumption either. We very concreetly tried it, and > sure enough. It's not occurring on his system. > > The only thing I've not done is to delete the .plist file associated with > Text Edit. I'm not sure though where that file would be exactly, nor what it > would be called. I'm sure I could find it easily enough, but I've not gone > that far just quite yet. > > Aside that though, I am totally out of options! > > I've even looked under Accessibility within System Prefs, but see absolutely > nothing rellavent. > > Please please! can someone help before I go insane over here trying to figure > this out, or put my friend in a mental institution? LOL! > > Chris. > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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