[BRLTTY] a couple of questions for linux users

[kendell lee clark]

Hi
So it’s an orca or desktop issue? Sorry, but I’m just t trying to get a handle on what needs improving. I’ve heard, but can’t verify that other oses more or less autodetect this stuff, and I want to get Linux to that point. I’m not blaming brltty, but it is the main thing which provides braille support. So if it only does what orca and xbrlapi tell it, then those things need improving? If so, can you guys give me some direction to go in? I’ve brought this up to the orca dev, and she’s … well, she’s convinced it’s not her issue, she keeps referring me to you guys or to the liblouis folks, and I don’t know how to get ahold of those guys. So if I have this right, brltty is the main braille display support. Xbrlapi parses braille displays and the keyboards of those displays? This isn’t helped by the fact that I don’t actually have a display to test on. If it’s apackaging issue, I may be able to help get the files that are missing packaged. What about wayland support? For those who don’t know, wayland is supposed to replace x as the desktop display protocol, and as far as I know brltty doesn’t yet work with it. I can’t test of course since I … and so on. I’ll take any unused, unwanted displays. Bad list for this I suppose, but if I’m going to improve braille I need a display to test on. Brltty will need to eventually, not right now, support wayland. It’s still sort of in development. 

Thanks
Kendell Clark


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From: Dave Mielke
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 7:46 PM
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] a couple of questions for linux users

[quoted lines by Devin Prater on 2017/06/13 at 18:34 -0500]

>I’m fairly sure it’s a BRLTTY issue, but since many users of BRLTTY use it 
>only in the console, we may have to work extra hard to get it working well in 
>the desktop.

Brltty makes no special effort to work within X. It relies on Orca telling it 
(via brlapi) what to display, and on xbrlapi interpreting the input.

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