[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Samsung Galaxy S7

Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Sat Dec 31 05:41:13 EST 2016


[Dave]
> [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2016/12/27 at 15:57 +0100]
> 
> >I'd like to report som eissues using BRLTTY on a Samsung Galaxy S7 with
> >Android version 6.0.1

[...]

> >- I do not get access with BRLTTY to the message text in the Messages
> >  app. E.g. when opening a message, the focus get to the edit field.
> >  From there, scrolling back, I get to the date/time for each message
> >  displayed, but I can't read the text. The same is true in Aqua mail,
> >  after opening an email there, and I cannot read the message text whith
> >  braille.
> 
> Are you able to get to it via the touch screen? If so, what's on the braille 
> display when you're on it?

Yes, Voice Assistant speaks the massage text. On the braille display,
I see only the phrase (ListView).

> >- When going to the home screen, and BRLTTY is enabled, the speech from
> >  Voice assistant (which TalckBack is called on Samsung devices), reads
> >  all icons on the screen. Tis happens whether or not the
> >  braille display is connected.
> 
> Have you disabled brltty's speech? If so, how? I just want to be sure that it 
> isn't brltty that's doing the talking.

I disabled speech from BRLTTY from the BRLTTY settings dialog.

Thanks a lot for all your valuable work!

Wish you all a happy new year!

Lars


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