[BRLTTY] Braille Display Protocol

[Justin Cunningham]

Hello,

> The difficulty is that integration with a screen reader, e.g.
> brltty, isn't ultimately very useful if there isn't any way to navigate the
> braille display around the screen.

I see I’ve been misinterpreting what a screen reader does. I always thought that the text that is displayed to you is the text that the mouse is currently hovering over. When I played around with NVDA, the narrator spoke the text being hovered over so I just assumed the same applied to Braille Displays but I must be wrong.

We’re just trying to show that the prototype also works independent of human input (e.g. right now, we have to manually type a character).

Thanks,
Justin

> On 19 Dec 2019, at 15:49, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by Justin Cunningham on 2019/12/18 at 22:13 +0000]
> 
>> My device is pretty barebones. It has no buttons and only one cell. I was
>> pointed towards the ‘skeleton’/starter driver in the Brltty GitHub repository.
>> Would that be enough (obviously after some modifying and altering) for my
>> display?
> 
> Yes, it would. The difficulty is that integration with a screen reader, e.g.
> brltty, isn't ultimately very useful if there isn't any way to navigate the
> braille display around the screen. Usually, of course, those are on the braille
> device itself. If you were using Linux then there are tables that bind
> navigation actions to the computer's keyboard. Unfortunatey, we haven't gotten
> around to implementing that kind of support on Windows. While it can be, and
> should be, done, it hasn't been high enough on the priority list so far.
> 
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