Hi everyone, After updating to macOS 26.1 Beta 4, I discovered a deal-breaking issue that affects Braille only users in an extreme way. If you want to read WebKit-rendered content (which is the case in Safari, for example) using a Braille display, some content is no longer displayed. Instead, something completely different of the web page is displayed on the BRaille display. If you don't want to or cannot rely on speech output, you could miss out on complete paragraphs while reading or read through a complete chaos which makes no sense at all.
I have already filed a feedback report for this issue, but I cannot imagine that this is fixed until the final release (I expect the RC to drop next week) from what I experienced the last few years around macOS.
What can you do as BRaille only user
There are two options if this gets no fix before the release of macOS 26.1:
- Don't update to 26.1 but use 26.0.x instead until the issue gets fixed.
- Use another browser like Google Chrome or Firefox, which however can have its own flaws. For example, in Chrome, braille output in text fields is completely unreliable and, very often, nothing is displayed at all within text fields. However, reading through web pages works as expected.
It's so sad to see that macOS seems to get almost no attention these days regarding BRaille issues, whereas iOS / iPadOS work much better most of the time.
Once the RC is out, I will report back in this thread whether the issue is fixed or not.