My Brailliant BI 40X is out for maintenance and hope it comes back
next week. For me its the best braille display.
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On 5/10/2025 5:41 PM, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries wrote:
You’re not wrong, honestly. Braille on macOS has always seemed to be vestigial,
at best, in a way that even iOS Braille isn’t. It’s just tech debt, I fear,
that keeps VoiceOver on macOS from being truly great, and nowhere is that more
evident than with Braille, which it’s better to have than not, but is clearly
behind other screen readers.
I am looking at a future Braille display that’s not a Focus from Freedom
Scientific, and it comes down to a toss-up between Humanware Brailliant BI40X
and Orbit Reader 40. Astonishingly, macOS still doesn’t support Orbit Reader
using its native protocol, only through its VarioUltra emulation, as best I can
tell. This is very disappointing, to say the least of it, although it gladdens
my fleshy heart that Orbit Research implemented the feature in a display of
such economical cost at all—so much so, in fact, that I might just wander off
and buy one, in spite of that consideration. We must reward that kind of
empowering work, I think.
As for BRLTTY, yup, I use it every single day; my Mac is often connected via
USB to my Focus but not driving it, and a VM with a textmode Linux environment
is being used instead to do all the command line things. It’s awesome. You want
this over the paltry Terminal support in macOS if you’re using Braille.
Good luck on your travels in Windows land. I think you will find, inevitably,
that it has downsides … but there’s no denying the superiority of Braille
support.
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