OT: Is there a list for blind Mac users and programmers?

[John J. Boyer]

Brent,

The OSX shell works very well. I am using ssh from a Linux machine with 
no trouble. ssh from windows doesn't work very well. I would strongly 
suggest installing the Fink distribution on your Mac. This will give you 
all the usual Open Source programs without interfering with the normal 
operation of the Mac or requiring dual-boot.

I'm disappoinsed that Voiceover won't include braille, but some of us 
are working on porting BRLTTY to the Mac.

I expect to continue using ssh via wireless and my Elba.

John

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:41:34PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
> How well will the shell work, and how is the speech? What synth? I currently
> use a PC with a double talk PC to run my shell stuff in fedora, but it's
> slowly failing in windows, and sometimes locking dead in linux too, and I
> want faster equipment. Would OSX be the answer I'm looking for, or is
> voiceover going to be a feeble product like the narrator in windows.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "S?bastien Sabl?" <sable.jussieu at free.fr>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: Is there a list for blind Mac users and programmers?
> 
> 
> > Hi John,
> >
> > John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > Does anyone know about such a list? Will the Tiger release of XSX
> > > support braille access?
> >
> > AFAIK Voice Over (the screen reader in Tiger) will not support Braille
> > displays for the moment.
> >
> > However I got Libbraille to work on Mac OS X and added a Preference Pane
> > for Braille; you can download an installer there:
> > http://libbraille.org/download.php
> >
> > There is only a test application which detects the Braille display and
> > displays a few things for the moment, but if you have a braille display
> > I am interested on feedback.
> >
> > MozBraille should also work with Braille displays on MacOS X but you
> > have to compile it yourself at the moment:
> > http://mozbraille.mozdev.org/
> > I am currently working on an XPI installer for MozBraille to make it
> > easier to install and I will make it work on MacOSX also.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > -- 
> > S?bastien Sabl?
> >
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