[BRLTTY] Windows version - Brltty and Jaws sharing a port

Lee Maschmeyer lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu
Mon Nov 17 08:58:12 EST 2008


As far as I know, Jaws tests the port at most 2 times, very rapidly when 
Jaws starts. If it can't get the device it gives up.

For this reason I've never run the Windows brltty installer. I stop Jaws and 
then run brltty as an application and I don't know whether this would 
preclude its use in NVDA as I don't have that yet.

I think what I'd suggest is, set Jaws not to start automatically. That way 
every time the system starts you'd get brltty. Then when you want to use 
Jaws you could stop brltty (net stop brlapi?) and then start Jaws manually.

HTH,

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Lee Maschmeyer
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA




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