[BRLTTY] Call for testing: Touch navigation on Handy Tech devices

[Mario Lang]

Oops, it turns out I sent this announcement a bit too early.  The
relevant pull request has not been merged yet.  Hold on for a second, I
will let you know once things are in place in the master branch.

Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> writes:

> Hi.
>
> This is likely especially interesting to those of you who use on of the
> following Braille Display models:
>
>   * Handy Tech Modular Evolution 64/88
>   * Handy Tech Active Braille
>   * Handy Tech Active Star 40
>
> We finally came around to implementing touch navigation.  Since Handy
> Tech devices with ATC technology can transmit to the host which braille
> cells are being touched, BRLTTY can now track what you have
> already read, and automatically go to the next non-blank window if you
> have finished reading the current line.  This means you can read several
> lines of text without having to invoke a single keypress.
>
> This feature is rather new, and possible has a few kinks still.
> You can test if by changing the touch related preferences menu items in
> the input preference menu.  On Handy Tech devices that support ATC,
> toggling the automatic scrolling behaviour has been bound to
> B1+B4+LeftSpace.  IOW, Chord-UpperCase-A.
>
> If you experiment with this, make sure to play with the touch
> sensitivity setting in the preferences menu.  For now, I am having best
> results with "Maximum" touch sensitivity.  This probably depends very
> much on your style of reading.
>
> Let me know what you think.

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