Hi! THe braille support on the mac terminal is not so good IMHO. But it should be possible to compile and install brltty on the mac for better console support. I haven’t done that yet as i am not understanding how to do that correctly. /A
> 28 feb. 2018 kl. 17:21 skrev Linux for blind general discussion > <blinux-list@redhat.com>: > > Hi, > > Jumping in here to try and clarify one point ... > > Linux for blind general discussion writes: > ... > >> Do you use also a brailledisplay on the Mac and in the terminal? >> Answer: >> I do in deed us a Braille display on my Mac with no problem. I have a Focus >> 40 Blue and it works great. I will admit that I do not know Computer Braille >> yet but I would very much like to learn it so I can use Braille when >> developing software. It is on my to learn list for sure... >> > Would you find your Mac Terminal as useful without the braille? I > suspect not vis a vis Speakup on Linux. > >> My questions: >> 1. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on my HP laptop but with little success in the >> terminal due to things not being spoken. I am running Orca as the screen >> reader. Can you provide some tips or how toos for making my terminal access >> and over all Linux experience more accessible? >> > No surprise here. Speakup is what you want for console access. > >> 2. You said "After using a Mac for a few weeks at work I was very >> disappointed. >> Especialy the VoiceOver support in the terminal is not more then >> rudimentary compared to the things you can do with a screenreader on a >> linux system." >> > This is my experience precisely with my Mac Airbook. > > In fact, while traveling with only the Airbook, I would ssh from a > VMware Linux session into my Mac to do Mac terminal tasks, because of > the superior screen reader support. > > As noted above, braille would viciate my statement. I'm speaking of TTS > only interfacing. > > hth > > Janina > > -- > > Janina Sajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
