[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

[Devin Prater]

Hi all. I've just recently gotten an Android phone, the Samsung S20 FE. So,
with my Focus 14, the latest generation, I thought I'd try BRLTTY again
after a few years of not having Android. I'm pretty happy with it so far,
except that when I go to the next line, and it's at the end of the current
screen, it doesn't scroll. Is there a way to have it scroll automatically?
This may be useful even in books or something. I've just installed the app
today, and had to play around with which settings were in the preferences
menu, Space with P, and which are in the BRLTTY settings screen, including
setting contracted braille to Unified instead of regular English US braille.

One thing I really love are the stylized controls, like radio buttons and
checkboxes. I think more screen readers should do something like that. It
really adds a flair of "color" to an otherwise bland experience. Is it too
much to ask that, in Chrome, text attributes, like bold, italics,
underlines, be shown using the braille table's symbols for them, and
paragraphs be indented, and headings be indented more? Ah, at that point
you might as well make a "literary reading" mode or something. Just me
dreaming of an enjoyable reading experience. Not to say BRLTTY is bad in
any way; no other screen reader does this either. But BRLTTY has blaised
the trail before, so my dream lives on!

In conclusion, I'm really liking BRLTTY, and besides the few complaints I
have, which may just be me not knowing all the settings, I think it's a
great app, on Android as well as Linux, and I'll do my best to spread word
about it to more folks, and let them know that, on Android, there *is* a
good option for braille.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
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