[BRLTTY] NLS EReader thumb keys

[Devin Prater]

Okay, thanks so much!
Devin Prater
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 9:08 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2021/08/26 at 20:12 -0400]
>
> >>The only problem I have is that the thumb keys are reversed as to
> >>what functions they'd normally do. The Up and Down keys, the one on the
> far
> >>left and far right, are supposed to move one line up (left) and one line
> >>down (right). The other two, Back and Advance, or Left and Right as I
> think
> >>they're actually called, are for panning the display. Is there a reason
> >>those functions were reversed?
> >
> >We made those assignments, as near as I can remember, when Humanware only
> had models where that didnt' matter. Now, unfortunately for us, they have
> "smart" devices and made assignments that didn't agree with ours. That
> gives us essentially three choices:
>
> Okay, now I know that it's much more than just a problem. The Humanware
> NLS eReader actually has raised edges on its keys that tell the user which
> direction each key will go. This, to me, means that the key bindings
> absolutely need to be fixed. I'll do this before 6.4 is released. I'm just
> waiting on a dude from Humanware to tell me which models have these raised
> edges and, in the end, how they'd prefer us to address this issue.
>
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