[BRLTTY] google chromebook and brltty

[Cheryl Homiak]

I no longer need answers to these questions! I found a really clear how-to for changing to developer mode in Youtube and successfully switched to developer mode. At that point I was able to start brltty which was already on the system but apparently only available in developer mode. I was also able to use the terminal for ssh, which was one of my primary goals, by doing control-alt-t for terminal and then typing shell which would of course not work without developer mode. Ssh then worked. I am so thrilled! . I have also discovered that brltty works outside of terminal though I still am going to have a lot to learn to use it with the gui. When I powered off and turned the computer on again I found that brltty started immediately; the first time I had not had the braille display connected and so ended up typing brltty in terminal after connecting the display.




> On Jun 9, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Cheryl Ann Homiak <cahomiak at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all.
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> I was recently given an Acer chromebook. I have managed to do some beginning things with it. If anybody is using brltty with Chrome OS, I have the following questions.
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> 1. Am I going to have to go into developer mode in order to install brltty?
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> #b4 If I have to go into developer mode, will chromevox contiue to talk during the process (I am thinking not!) and (more important) will it be able to be turned on and talk once changed over to develloper mode.
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> Thanks for any help.
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