[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

[Devin Prater]

Responses inline. I've also used it a bit more, but find that it does crash
a lot. Has this been tested on Android 11? I'll grab a crash log when I can.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater at gmail.com


On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 10:54 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Devin Prater on 2021/04/07 at 13:58 -0500]
>
> >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?
>
> Do you mean like when you're reading through a lobng list?
>
> When I'm moving through the home screen, and press Space with dot 4 to
move to the next item, it moves a few items forward, but then beeps after
the fourth or so icon. Although, panning seems to not have this issue. But
I wouldn't want to have to pan through the whole screen.


> >This may be useful even in books or something.
>
> When on what Android calls a "text view", it should be already dislaying
> the whole text, i.e. even text that isn't on the screen.
>
> Oh, that's interesting. I'll have to see if Kindle shows its book text in
the text view. But can BRLTTY handle that much text in what I assume is the
braille "buffer"?


> >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.
>
> The general answer is that what's in the Android settings is the same as
> what needs to be configured in brltty.conf on Linux.
>
> Ah, okay, I've never had to mess with the conf file... well there was that
quick space thing but besides that, all of the BRLTTY settings were in the
preferences. But I have it configured fine now on Android, so I'm good
there.


> >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?
>
> I'll have a look into doing that. Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> You're welcome. I figure if BrailleBlaster can do this for books,
centering headings, showing formatting, indenting paragraphs, all that,
then screen readers and braille display drivers can do it too. I'd love to
see BRLTTY be the first, so I can go to iOS braille users and say "See what
my Android can do?" <smile> More seriously though, it'd make reading a lot
more enjoyable, and closer to what you get in hardcopy braille books. I do
think it should be a toggle, something like a "literary mode." After all,
you may not want that while doing regular "screen reading."


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