It's usable, but there are some bugs and you just have to work around
them until they get fixed. As noted before, don't expect it to be like
what you would find running JAWS or something on Windows. If you have
used braille on iOS, the experience is fairly close to that in terms
of typing with the display.

Scott

On 9/3/14, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote:
> Hi!
> Well, i could  say a lot about braille on the mac. Most of it is really
> negative.
> Tbut i can make a summary.
> Don't expect it to be like using jaws with windows or any linux based
> screenreader.
> They have a lot to improve which i've tried to tell them.
> Hopfully they will listen.
> /A
> 1 sep 2014 kl. 20:02 skrev Gerard Doody <jerrydood...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi There, I think it depends on which display you are using.  I have found
>> that for use on a computer, the shorter ones, with 12, 18, even 32
>> characters might not suite. However, if you have a 40 cell it works pretty
>> well.  Oh, also it depends on you skills using both the mac and braille.
>>
>> I am a life-long braille user and I have connected a focus 40 and a
>> braillepen12 to my macbookpro.  hth
>> Jerry Doody
>> jerrydood...@gmail.com
>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 11:31 am, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here's a question to you who uses braille displays on a dayly base. Would
>> you say it's easiely possible to use braille as the main output device? Or
>> would you say braille on the Mac is too buggy and doesn't work to well?
>>
>> For example: I saw braille used in Wikipedia and it was a catastrophy. But
>> maybe you know a way of using it efficiantly. I'd be glad for all of your
>> hints.
>>
>> Thanks and
>> all the best
>> Jürgen
>>
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