Hi Mary, I'm the one who desperately wants the Braillino :). I have never seen the Handytech displays in person, but I was very impressed with their customer service staff. I'm trying to get the state agency here in New York, The Commission for the Blind to pay for the Braillino. The display I currently use is the BrailleNote Mpower by HumanWare. It's the 32 cell model. I'm not sure about the alternate languages table, or entering text using the displays keyboard. I'm not sure if it's supported by the new Snow Leopard update. I love displays, and can't wait to get one of my own yay! I have had some trouble configuring HumanWare via Bluetooth, but maybe it's just because it's an older display. Well, I hope I have been of some help. I don't think it's VoiceOver that's the problem configuring the BrailleNote but the BrailleNote itself. We'll see how it does with the new Snow Leopard updates.
Allison On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just had a look through the braille support section of the vo help, since > I'm at least thinking about getting a display. I've never had one of my own; > I use to use one at work, and it was wonderful for foreign language work. So > now I have some questions that the help section didn't address. > > There was no mention of being able to have alternate language tables. I think > I remember seeing reports that you can't do that. Is that right? I know there > will be a bunch of them in ios4, and I was rather hoping that this would have > migrated to SL, but I guess it didn't. > > I didn't see anything about being able to actually enter text using the keys > which some displays have dedicated to that purpose, or if you own a notetaker > like a braille sense plus, using that keyboard to enter text. Does that mean > that text entry from the display is not possible? the number of displays > supported is impressive. I'd be curious to hear what displays people are > using and how that is working out for you. > > Somebody mentioned wanting a braillino. that's one I'd looked at, although > the price tag is a bit high. I've never seen the special concave cells that > Handytech uses. One of the toughest things about deciding n a display, aside > from the money, is getting to really try a variety of them if you don't > attend one of the big conventions. but I'm getting off topic. > > mary > > -- > 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.
