[macvoiceover] Re: Refreshabraille and the Mac
- From: covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:22:16 -0500
I bet you could use brltty on the mac, but of course it would not read
the gui.
Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Maybe there's a better list to which to send this and, in any case, offlist
> replies are fine if it isn't good to have this on this list. The only braille
> devices I have are aging braillelite 40s, which are still working but won't
> work with the Mac. The only braille display I could even possibly afford
> right now is the refreshabraille, and even at that, I could almost buy two
> Mac minis with dual drives and 4gb of memory for that price - not that I need
> two mac minis but you get my point. So I'd really like to know, from those
> who use both braille and speech, if the braille really makes a difference for
> you since it appears to use the same system as the speech rather than having
> its own interface to the screen. I'd also like to know, especially from
> anybody using the refreshabraille, whether it's going to be more frustrating
> than it's worth only being able to access 18 cells at a time as I've been so
> used to 40 cells on linux and Windows. Unfortunately thre's no place to go !
and try one out to see what I think.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Cheryl
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