[macvoiceover] Re: braille on the Mac:
- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:44:43 -0400
Hi Sarah,
It shouldn't take long for you to grasp some of what seems hard once you see
it in action. It sounds or feels harder than it actually is.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sara" <push649@xxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:41 AM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: braille on the Mac:
I really hope the store will let me take a mac home lol because I am going
to need a long time to get used to the cursoring stuff. lol
Thanks for the info. Nice to know that things just work.
Sara
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:37 AM
Subject: [macvoiceover] braille on the Mac:
> Hi all,
>
> Braille on the Mac is integrally tied to voiceover. When you plug a
> braille
> display into a usb port on a mac with leopard running on it, it is active
> when voice over is running. The braille display represents what is in the
> voiceover cursor by a line of dots 7 and 8 so for instance if you are
> sitting on the desktop and have a bunch of items there, the item(s) in the
> voiceover cursor will be represented by dots 7 and 8 and those outside the
> voiceover cursor if displayed depending on the size of your braille
> display
> will not show the extra dots.
>
> Braille can be customized to a degree by using the braille options in the
> voiceover utility but I won't go into that here.
>
> In a composition area such as an edit field or document etc, the insertion
> point is shown as two dots, dot 8 of the left cell and dot 7 of the right
> cell so that if you are positioned on a character, it shows the direction
> of
> movement. If you move right, the left dot shows the character you were on
> and the right dot shows where you will go if you continue moving right, in
> effect, illustrating that you are between characters. if you go left, the
> right dot shows where you are and the left dot shows where you will go if
> you continue moving left.
>
> The routing buttons work much the same. if you press a routing button
> somewhere to the left of your current position, it has the same effect as
> moving left above and for right the same as above. In other words,
> braille
> makes the cursor positioning much clearer.
>
>>
>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
>>
>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
>>
>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
>>
>
>
> Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
>
> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
>
> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
>
>
> Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
>
> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
>
> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
>
Other related posts:
