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

[Mario Lang]

OK, now we are ready for public testing.

Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> writes:

> 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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