[BRLTTY] Braille voyager 70

Alexander Masic list at masic.se
Wed Nov 18 12:40:37 EST 2015


nop. because in the cd there is a special drivers dedicated for each 
screenreader.
There is some documentation on the cd, and i will check and see if i can 
find some info about the converter. But it has dissapired for the 
moment. can't remeber were i put it.



Den 2015-11-18 kl. 18:04, skrev Bram Duvigneau:
> Hi,
>
> If you use ALVA BC in JAWS/Window-eyes and that works, it should work in
> NVDA as well. All those drivers should be based on the same DLL (e.g.
> they should share the driver code).
>
> Bram
> On 11/18/2015 5:49 PM, Alexander Masic wrote:
>> I try that. both in BRLTTY and NVDA without any results. My
>> unprofesional gues is that the problem is that the brailledisplay
>> diden't show up as normal device do when you conect it to a computer.
>> But you have right. In jaws i selected Alva bc 640, or what it was????
>> But there is specific drivers wich comes with the converter for jaws,
>> Window eyes and some more screenreader. So my amatur gues is that the
>> driver in nvda or brltty must be modify in order to work with this
>> converter.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Den 2015-11-18 kl. 17:30, skrev Bram Duvigneau:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> If I remember correctly, Optelec made a converter device that converts
>>> the old Voyager protocol to the Alva BC protocol. If that's the case,
>>> please try NVDA without BRLTTY and just choose the Alva BC display in
>>> NVDA's braille settings.
>>>
>>> Bram
>>>
>>> On 11/18/2015 5:07 PM, Alexander Masic wrote:
>>>> Hehe. I'M not a techguy to understand it clearly. However i conect it
>>>> from the brailledisplays uSB-port to the convertbox , and another usb
>>>> from the box in to the computer. My gues is the box converts from an
>>>> old usb-standard to a newer, or convert from 32 to 64 bit.
>>>> Another intresting thing is that Voyager does not shows up in my
>>>> device manager. But in devices and printers an unspecific device shows
>>>> up as, "USB converter".
>>>> However it works very well with jaws and Windows eyes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Den 2015-11-18 kl. 16:13, skrev Dave Mielke:
>>>>> [quoted lines by Alexander Masic on 2015/11/18 at 00:38 +0100]
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have now purchased an Convert box wich Optelec provide. The price
>>>>>> was more
>>>>>> or less robb. but ok. 70 cells display is 70 cells display. So now
>>>>>> it,s works
>>>>>> very well with both Jaws 17 and window eyes and other screenreaders
>>>>>> running
>>>>>> windows 10 64 bit maschine..
>>>>> What does the box do? Do you access your Voyager via USB or via a
>>>>> serial port?
>>>>>
>>>>>> But my problem is that i can't get it work together with brltty and
>>>>>> NVDA. And
>>>>>> i would like to use it with nvda. Because it's better in many
>>>>>> situation then
>>>>>> Jaws.
>>>>> Do you mean directly with NVDA, or do you mean still via brltty?
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're using brltty, we'd need to see a debug log that shows what's
>>>>> happening when the problem occurs.
>>>>>
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