Hi. I am using danish and english, I have the same problem. Why do apple not include a function so you can choose to add a braille table to a specific voice, when my braille table would change when I change voice/language. In a way that works better on the IPhone.
I wonder where apple has got there braille tables. Do you know that. They have not done much research, but the braille is great, but now we will have to get all the bugs fixed, and in danish we have a great deal. Best regards Annie. Den Aug 30, 2011 kl. 1:07 PM skrev Simon Cavendish: > Dear Listers, > > This message is primarily for those who use Braille with a Braille display > under Lion and who need to use Braille in foreign languages, especially those > languages that use non-Latin characters. In my case, it is Greek and Russian. > > I am not sure whether anyone has noticed but under lion, although Apple > accessibility has provided lots of Braille tables for foreign languages - as > Anne Robertson has already mentioned - some of them are outdated. > Additionally, the current Braille tables, do not include a unicode Braille > table. The result is that if one is working in a document that contains two > different languages, say English and Greek, or if one is working on two > documents at the same time as you would in translation, you have to keep on > switching Braille tables in Voiceover utility which as you can imagine is > bothersome and makes translation work impossible. Similarly, if you are > reading the bilingual text, and you have your Braille table set to English, > all the Greek text will be invisible to the Braille display and you want be > able to read it. > > Under Snow Leopard, we had Braille tables provided by Archie Robertson from > Cecimac - free gift from this generous person. It had a unicode Braille table > as well as many other language tables, and this problem did not arise there. > The unicode Braille table was able to handle many languages at the same time. > So I could comfortably read an Anglo-Greek text in Braille. > > Sadly, under Lion, Archie's tables cannot be added nor can the existing > tables be modified. I've written to Accessibility team to ask them to make a > modification and addition of tables possible, or else include a unicode 8 dot > table in further developments. I was wondering whether others on the list > have a similar concern, and if yes, would they also write to accessibility. > The job that the Accessibility Team have done so far is absolutely great - > and I have made it profusely clear when writing to them. But this little step > is missing, and this step is also crucial for those who need to engage in the > study of some foreign languages, and/or translation work. > > Thank you all for reading this > > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
