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

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Nov 25 13:02:52 EST 2008


James Teh, le Tue 25 Nov 2008 21:34:49 +1000, a écrit :
> On 25/11/2008 7:44 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Well, another way would be to set the brltty service to not start
> > automatically (could be an installation option), and have NVDA
> > start/stop it itself.  James, what do you think?
> I'm pretty against this option for two reasons:
> * Starting a service requires administrative privileges. NVDA may not 
> necessarily be running with such privileges. Indeed, under Vista, NVDA 
> will *never* run with admin privs.

Ah, right.

The design issue is that it's convenient for the user to get feedback
from braille working when starting brltty, and on the other hand that
conflicts with jaws trying to do the same...

Samuel


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