Looking for a good first braille display for Mac and beyond.

By almeus, 21 April, 2018

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Braille on Apple Products

I work in IT, and am looking for a braille display that is very widely supported. I use an iPhone and a MacBook pro personally, but I also need to connect to windows machines using either NVDA or JAWS, and Linux/UNIX servers via brltty. I was able to borrow an older Focus 40 blue , and it seemed to check all those boxes, but I'm wondering what else is out there. In particular, how can I try before I buy? I don't want to put down thousands of dollars on something I'll end up hating.

I've been following the Orbit Reader 20's developement for a few years, but it seems like it's taking forever to come out. I know they had a 'soft launch' of sorts back in February, but there were widespread problems. I don't want to wait another year for them to iron things out. I'm looking for something that I can carry around with me without a backpack, but that has enough cells to edit documents and read terminal output.

I realize this isn't exclusively Apple-related, but this forum seems much more active than the other blind-centric websites I'm aware of.

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