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 <cah4...@icloud.com> 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 never got much into Orca or other linux guy screenreader, I > would rather the braille didn't just echo the speech. I frankly find it > distracting in voiceover when I see words written out and I think maybe some > of that is because it is following the speech. I also don't really like the > fact that I have to have voiceover on to have braille except in terminal > where I use brltty, even though I can of course mute the speech. > >> On Aug 16, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: >> >> 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 <kris...@kristersplace.com>: >> >>> 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 >>> used to the braille display just echoing what the speech says and having >>> the speech be the main way of working with computers, am i right in this? >>> If not, please feel free to correct me. >>> /Krister >>> >>>> 16 aug 2014 kl. 18:38 skrev Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se>: >>>> >>>> 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 <ican...@jackzee.org>: >>>> >>>>> Greeting Folks! I am a brand spanking new Mac user. Just starting hfind >>>>> my way about on it. I have a Mac book Pro. Running the latest version >>>>> of Mavericks. I am using a braille edge and am finding the interface to >>>>> be somewhat messy. I should add that I am a deaf person and Cannot use >>>>> speech at all! For instance there's a line of dots at the bottom of the >>>>> display which I believe are called attributes? This is to say the least >>>>> somewhat distracting. Also though I have my BE. set to Grade two >>>>> translation there is no such though strangely enough there is with my >>>>> pacMate display which doesn't look like it will be useable in this >>>>> regard. If I am wrong in that someone please set me straight. Anyhoo, >>>>> where Do I go to find braille settings and how do I clean things up just >>>>> a bit?? Also for those of you if there are any out there who use a >>>>> braille display with your Mac how do you find the experience?? 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