Hi Søren, I thought I'd weigh in on this topic. As someone who has had trouble with her HumanWare Braille display, I can safely say that it is possible to use a braille display with VoiceOver. I have had some troubles hooking up my BrailleNote because the version of Keysoft I have is very old. But that's not HumanWare's fault. I don't know which displays work with VoiceOver unless I look at the list of supported displays. My BrailleNote works via a Bluetooth connection. Has anyone had any experience with this?
Allison On May 31, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi. > > Here are my thoughts: > I don't think it's possible to use Braille displays or Braille devices with > Voiceover simply because VOiceover only supports bluetooth and Braille > displays through a USB connection. Jaws does only support Braille through > serial connections which is being converted to USB using the serial to USB > adapter or using a driver in either Jaws or in Windows. Therefore, a USB > Braille display won't work with Jaws if there aren't a USB to serial > converter driver installed which communicate with Jaws. Likewise, a serial > Braille display won't work on a Mac until a serial to USB driver has been > made specially to Voiceover and the Braile settings. It's not enough with a > USB to serial converter without any driver. > Please correct me if I'm wrong. It's only my thoughts. > Best regards > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > On May 31, 2010, at 4:48 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Dean, I was able to set my m20 up as a braille display using a usb to >> serial no problem under window-eyes, and I'm assuming under jaws it would >> work the same way. As long as the data parameters are set up properly the >> usb port should function just like any other serial port. I was for sure >> able to use windisk this way to move files two and from my braille lite m20. >> >> Jaws doesn't support any hardware anymore. Support comes from the >> manufactures of the hardware. So I'm not surprised they played the no >> support game, but that should not necessarily mean it doesn't work. >> >> Regarding the apple, my guess is no, this won't work. Oddly enough apple >> officially supports all the devices on it's supported hardware list. I'm >> not sure though if mac OS 10 even supports serial ports in the 10.5 and 10.6 >> incarnations. Plus, there's no way in voiceover to force detection of >> legacy hardware as far as I know. >> >> I left my usb to serial addapter at a clients house so I can't try it >> myself, but I primarily wanted to chime in on jaws with usb to serial, since >> it seems to me that this should work even though it's not "supported". >> >> Best, >> >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> User support consultant, >> Website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> Toll-free: 888-255-5194 >> >> On 2010-05-31, at 10:17 AM, Dean Martineau wrote: >> >>> I suspect this may not have been tested, but should it work to use a >>> Braille Lite Millennium with a USB to serial converter as a braille >>> display using VoiceOver? this is an old Freedom Scientific device >>> which I own and like for other reasons but which, oddly enough, one >>> can't use as a display with JAWS since they don't support use of USB >>> to serial converters. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Dean >>> ,To find out about the week's news in adaptive technology, subscribe >>> to Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday by sending a blank message to tttt- >>> j...@topdotenterprises.com. (make sure you have 4 t's in the address!) >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
