Hello Tammy. I hope the following statements don't give too much unneeded information and cause confusion. I know you just asked about braille translation. However, I, as a professional braille proofreader who needs a lot of braille on her computer, would like to share some observations which I hope will be helpful to your friend. These are things which I didn't know about the Mac before I got mine, and it took some getting used to.
There is a significant difference that a I am finding in doing braille on the Mac from Windows. It never occurred to me that translator would work like VoiceOver does. I've never had one that did work like this. Let me see if I can explain what I'm talking about. Does your friend have a braille display with braille input keys? If so, he may want to try out his braille display for a while to get used to the fact that translation is not delayed in VoiceOver until a space or carriage return is pressed. This means that inputting in uncontracted braille is different with VoiceOver than it is with Jaws. At first, I had trouble on my Focus 40 inputting so that I didn't make a lot of mistakes. If I typed a letter and then stopped to think about what I was doing for too long in the wrong location, it got translated. Sometimes this gave me the wrong word. As a short example, if i typed the letter b, then stopped before going on, I got the word but. The letter b is short for the word but in braille. I had to learn when to stop so this didn't happen as often. I still am having some trouble with this, although I am getting better. I did not have a friend like yourself that had a Mac, so I was unable to practice with it beforehand. When I decided to switch I had to just get my own computer, after doing the most research I could on my questions. This braille input thing came as a surprise. Maybe you could help your friend set up portable preferences for VoiceOver on your computer so he could try these things out, with the help of us here on this list, of course. Regards, Gigi On Sep 20, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Tammy Abreu-Butron wrote: > Hello > I have a friend who wants to convert to mac and is 100% blind (I have a > little residual so I don't know the answer as mac user. She needs to convert > braille into text or docs and to create audio files. Is there a solution for > her? She has just about had it with jaws and needs the V12 so this might be > a good time to switch to mac and use the money toward a technology change > into the mac world. > Thanks for your help and suggestions > > -- > Tammy & Dubai > > -- > 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.
