Hi Mary, I'm using a Handytech braillestar 40 with my macbook. You can connect it via bluetooth or usb. For other brailletables then the default one in macosx, you can download cecibraille. It contains language tables such as german, french, ...
When you use google to find this dmg, you'll get right away. Hope this helps, kr -Peter Op 17-jun-2010, om 18:37 heeft Mary Otten het volgende geschreven: > 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.
