Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I think that the best way to approach this with people who don't actually use braille is to give concrete examples of what you cannot now do with the braille and what you want to do with it. Then if possible explain something about how that would work or how it can be done. Even with people who

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-19 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! For me i want voiceover to have better braille support. But i don't know how to describe it so people can understand it. /A 18 aug 2014 kl. 19:59 skrev The Believer : > Are you wanting full braille access without VO involved at all? Perhaps I > am pragmatic about this as I take advantage of

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-19 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Well you can access it but the braille support is not as great as for example in jaws or window eyes. THe best screenreader i've seen is infact cobra for windows and orca or brltty for linux. Theycan be used without speech. /A 18 aug 2014 kl. 19:24 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu : > When it's mu

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-18 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hmmm. I don't fail to acknowledge, I just don't think it's a very good excuse. :) I do understand what you're saying, and I'm happy in my own way with my chosen path for all the reasons many listers on here can share, but braille support has been here since Snow Leopard. It has not been subst

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
While I realize that braille on the Mac still has plenty of room for improvement, i am still glad to have it. For one thing, to say that it is behind "even" compared to other graphical screenreaders fails to acknowledge that most of the other screenreaders have been under development for years a

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-18 Thread The Believer
Are you wanting full braille access without VO involved at all? Perhaps I am pragmatic about this as I take advantage of what I have. It may be I do not realize what I am not missing. :) From The Believer. . . What if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 8/18/2014 10:24 AM, Sabahatt

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-18 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
When it's muted. It can't be completely off. Different displays will be different for convenient access from the display itself, but you can still (I would argue, inconveniently) access VoiceOver from the keyboard while using braille, no matter the display. Ditto for the trackpad, if you have

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-18 Thread The Believer
Maybe I am missing the target here. Are you talking about when VO is disabled, or muted? From The Believer. . . What if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 8/18/2014 8:34 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! I can't. You have to have speech turned on! I have tried to explain that when i

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-18 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I can't. You have to have speech turned on! I have tried to explain that when i wrote to the accessibility team but i am not sure they'll understand. Or listen. /A 17 aug 2014 kl. 19:44 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu : > I'm just not happy with VoiceOver's braille support for a variety of reasons

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Cheryl, I always mute the speech while using braille. I have always done this with any screen reader whilest using braille. It's just too distracting! Cait On Aug 16, 2014, at 6:52 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked with > brl

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I can't use my Focus 40 blue via the Mac by Bluetooth as it's been broken with Mavericks on it. I hope IOS fixes that problem. Kawal. > On 17 Aug 2014, at 12:09 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can and I keep promising to put out an update but never get around to it. > Also, when a new OS com

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
You are right there. If only they took Braille seriously on the Mac. That's why I use my Braille display on my I phone although I'd really like to use it on the Mac as I have two displays as I wanted to use the 40 on the Mac and the 14 which I use on my I phone. Kawal. > On 16 Aug 2014, at 05:

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-17 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
I'm just not happy with VoiceOver's braille support for a variety of reasons which I've restated many times on here. It's behind even the other graphical screen readers. But you don't have to take my word for it, just perform this simple test: turn speech off. Can you manage with braille only?

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
You can and I keep promising to put out an update but never get around to it. Also, when a new OS comes out, something usually breaks. For instance, in Mavericks I can use my braille edge but input from the keyboard and some other things don't work. > On Aug 16, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Devin Prater

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I would rather be able to use the braille display only but this isn't always possible. for instance, there is no double-tap-and-hold equivalent for the braille display as far as I know. Also, sometimes if I lose my place as to where my cursor is, doing a quick arrow with my bluetooth keyboard wh

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Devin Prater
Oh, you can use brailletty in the terminal? How can that be done? > On Aug 16, 2014, at 17:52, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked with > brltty in linux and in terminal on the Mac for years, admittedly mostly > command-line as I n

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked with brltty in linux and in terminal on the Mac for years, admittedly mostly command-line as I never got much into Orca or other linux guy screenreader, I would rather the braille didn't just echo the speech. I frankly find

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Your english is better than mine and you're better to describe than me. But you're totally right. /A 16 aug 2014 kl. 19:07 skrev Krister Ekstrom : > Hi, > Without knowing any details, i suspect that this has to do in different ways > of working with Braille. We europeans are used to a mor ind

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread The Believer
This is exactly how I view the use of a braille display connected to OS X, iOS or Windows. Its fine to take one's hands off the braille keyboard to interact directly with the connected system but in my limited experience to date, I can do it all from my braille display. For some of us wi

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Um.. Can you explain this more? I think you should be able to go anywhere a sighted preson can go on the screen, etc. I also think that navigating with the display, if it has an input keyboard, should be possible with as little interaction with the print keyboard as possible, so that you can j

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Without knowing any details, i suspect that this has to do in different ways of working with Braille. We europeans are used to a mor independent braille cursor, so to speak. We like to work with braille as a should we call it free entity for lack of a better word. The Americans however are u

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Actually i do not like the support of braille that much. Its quite limited and sadly they seem to not understand this on the accessibility team. /A 15 aug 2014 kl. 15:07 skrev Jack and Becky : > Greeting Folks! I am a brand spanking new Mac user. Just starting hfind my > way about on it. I

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi Jack, You wil find the settings for braille in the voice over utility. Hit control option f8. This will take you to the vo utility. After that, go down the table til you find braille. In the braille settings, you can set things up as you like. >From your description of the dots along th

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
What Erik has written is much more thorough and clear than what I have written below but since there are a few things he didn't say and I don't want to take the time to edit, I will send this as is. If in doubt, defer to what Erik has written. Others have also perhaps posted while I was working

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-15 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Jack, To reach braille settings on your mac, press control option f8 to open the voiceover utility. Then press b for braille. The dots 7 and 8 you feel at the bottom of your display indicate that the text on the display is highlighted. For example, you may be reading a paragraph on a web