[BRLTTY] Queries on Navigation in Android

[Rob]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

>>Today I was in the Message Plus app, sending a text message. I was trying 
>>to
>>bring focus to the edit input area where you could type a message. I hit 
>>space
>>dot 4 to move down the line, and I saw: Type a Message, but the block 
>>style
>>cursor did not appear until I picked up the phone and actually swiped on 
>>the
>>screen to bring up the text box.

> Did you try pressing the first routing key to bring the cursor there?
That worked. But the block style cursor did not show up indicating a text 
area. That's what was throwing me off.
>Then, when I wanted to hit the send button, I tried doing so from the 
>braille
>>device, but hitting the first routing key above the Send button only made 
>>a
>>beep sound. This button is supposed to bring accessibility focus to the
>>element, and the second is supposed to tap or click it. This did not 
>>happen.
>
> That should've worked. Have you done anything interesting like enable
> contracted braille or switch to the experimental two-dimensional layout?
Contracted braille is enabled. Since the send button is capitalized, and 
since that takes up one cell, I actually hit the second button--the one over 
the letter s--to bring focus. Just to be sure, though, I hit the first 
button, too--the one over the dot six indicating capital.
> Just to verify: Are you pressing the routing keys separately or in 
> combination
> with some other key(s)? For these functions, they should be pressed by
> themselves.
I am indeed pressing them by themselves.
>>And Brltty is not always following me. For instance, when on the home 
>>screen,
>>Brltty stays stuck on something called Quick Notifications. It does not 
>>track
>>properly in list views either (such as the conversations list in Message
>>plus), and sometimes it stops responding altogether.
>
> This sounds like an old problem that brltty started to have with Android 
> 5.0.
> How recent is the apk you installed, and where did you get it from?
I downloaded the App On July twenty-third, I believe, from brltty.com.
> >>Perhaps it is the bluetooth protocol,
>
> No, that wouldn't be a possibility. How brlrtty communicates with your 
> device
> wouldn't matter for this kind of thing, unless, of course, your braille 
> device
> and phone are far enough apart that the Bluetooth signal between them 
> simply
> isn't strong enough.
I keep the Braille device around my neck and the phone in its case on my 
belt, so, yes, this isn't likely to be the issue. I'm not that tall. Grin.