[BRLTTY] Skip identical blank lines setting seems to impact Orca

Jason J.G. White jason at jasonjgw.net
Sat Feb 28 12:06:06 UTC 2026


Sébastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinderer at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>When you ask BrlAPI to enter in tty mode, which is what you need to do
>if you want ot have access to the braille display and to its keyboard,
>you have to say wow you want keyboard events to be delivered do you. You
>have two choices: one is to receive them as brltty commands, and this is
>if you want to write applications that will work coherently no matter
>which braille device is actually used, or you can ask to receive
>keycodes as they are delivered by the driver.
>
>Is that what you were talking about?

Yes, that's what I had in mind, thus maybe, in the Linux case, Orca 
should support processing the keyboard events delivered by the driver so 
that the user can assign them to screen reader commands in their 
preferences.



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