[BRLTTY] Need some settings for the preferences configuration file

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Thu Oct 31 00:54:03 EDT 2013


John J. Boyer <john.boyer at abilitiessoft.com> wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> Thanks. I hope this works. I'm trying to use Vinux instead of Windows. 
> This has been one of the problems. The other problem is inadequate 
> Braille suport in Orca. In Jaws and WindowEyes there is a dialog for 
> activating Braille support and selecting Grade 2. Well, i guess Orca 
> does have a dialog for Braille support. But to get Brade 2 you have to 
> jump through hops that the Orca developers should have removed. There is 
> also no keystroke to switch between Grade 2 and computer Braille.  

Orca does allow you to change to Grade 2 braille with the same key combination
on your display as is used by BRLTTY. I haven't tried it with a recent version
of Orca however.

I would suggest asking on the Orca list; people tend to be responsive there,
and the GNOME bug tracker is also useful.



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