[BRLTTY] brltty "keyboard braille device" support (and a few more things)

Jason White jasonw at ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au
Thu Jan 25 03:51:11 EST 2007


On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:13:32AM +0100, S?bastien Hinderer wrote:
 
> In my opinion, it is very important to be able to adapt the screen reader
> to applications above all in contexts where nothing can be done to make
> applications themselves more accessible. This is, I believe, especially
> tru for DOS/Windows applications, which may be why profiles have become
> so popular.
> In an environment where aplications can be made more accessible by
> talking to their devlopers, submitting patches etc, it may be the case
> that profiles lose a bit of their importance.

I agree this is true for console-based applications. For X applications
(Gnome, OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc.), Orca uses application-specific scripts,
however, which are effectively profiles.

BRLTTY works with Orca, so in those cases where profiles are needed they
already exist.



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