improving braille support in Orca.

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Sun Oct 8 20:31:26 UTC 2017


Linux for blind general discussion, on dim. 08 oct. 2017 21:21:17 +0200, wrote:
> > Linux for blind general discussion, on dim. 08 oct. 2017 00:25:27 +0200, wrote:
> > > I have tried to contact the orca dev about a better braille support but she claims that this is a brltty problem and the brltty dev claims its an orca problem so what do i do then?
> > 
> > I don't remember seeing this discussion.  Which feature are you talking
> > about exactly?  Some things need improvement in brltty and other things
> > need improvements in orca.
> 
> If you activate Skip identical lines and Skip blank braille windows in
> BRLTTY, then you cannot navigate in Orca with the usual navigation braille
> display keys to read forward on the same line. When I press the
> navigation bar on my display, I only hear a beep from BRLTTY.

Ok, that part needs something from BRLTTY (which is on our TODO list for
a long time), and then it can be implemented in Orca.

Samuel




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