Hi,
I'll give a few insights into the context of this Apex QT vs Braille Terminal issue to complete Joseph's comprehensive summary. Up until 9.1, in the Braille Terminal, the QT models were forced to operate as Perkins keyboards using the home row, so both models were essentially behaving in a similar way. With 9.1 the QT was allowed to operate as a QT so as to improve the user experience with the recent versions of JAWS that support this. Unfortunately, this had the unintended consequences that you didn't fail to notice and that we somehow failed to foresee at that time. So as far as Apple is concerned, yes, if they could extend their driver to support the enhanced Braille terminal protocol with pass through of QT commands, then that would work "as well" as on JAWS. I believe the specs of the protocol have been exchanged and/or are quite open standards, so it's a matter of time for this to happen. But it's indeed up to Apple to do this part, as pointed by Dominic, and this applies to GW Micro and others. As for brltty and brlAPI, I suspect these are open projects that could get updated too with a bit of work. In the meantime, on our side, we've restored a way to get the QT to operate in Perkins mode in the Braille Terminal so that it should behave the way it was pre-9.1. It is in the pipe, and here again, just a matter of patience before it is available to you, and eventually, you'll be able to select whichever mode works best with your (changing) environment, and get the most of it. Cheers, Alex ________________________________ Alex BEC Software Design Engineer HumanWare Christchurch, New Zealand S: alexandrebec IP phone: 344 www.humanware.com <http://www.humanware.com/> ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ......................... The power is in your hands ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
