[BRLTTY] Possible OT: BRLTTY and Orca

Rob captinlogic at gmail.com
Sun Dec 20 17:02:36 EST 2015


Vincent LE GOFF <vincent.legoff.srs at gmail.com> wrote:


> Absolutely.  When I move the system cursor using tab or the arrow 
> keys, say, in a file, the Braille display is refreshed.  But I can't 
> move around using the keys of the Braille device.  Perhaps it's a 
> feature that hasn't been added to Orca, which I haven't tested in 
> awhile.

As I understand it, Orca only uses the brlapi interface to send it's own 
commands to the braille device, so you are not getting the full 
functionality of Brltty itself; rather the screen reader. I could have 
it wrong, though. I'm no developer and I barely used orca. 



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