[BRLTTY] qemu/vmware/... virtual braille devices?

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le Thu 10 Jan 2008 09:34:38 -0500, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/01/10 at 14:15 +0000]
> 
> >What made me think that is the definitions array in the openUsbPort
> >function.  The problem is that the guest screen reader is not
> >necessarily brltty, it's possible that JAWS or WindowEyes requires the
> >size and the USB ID to match.  That said, the given possibilities (24,
> >32, 40, 64, and 80) are numerous enough so that it's not so big a
> >problem.  We could hence have a "size-free" mode which uses the
> >arbitrary display size, and a legacy mode which repects USB IDs and thus
> >restricts the available sizes.
> 
> We could always return the USB ID for the largest size <= the actual display 
> size. The length of the bytes written to the display could then be 
> appropriately padded so that as much of the display as possible is used.

Ok.

> >Just the same: remember that the guest is not necessarily brltty, but
> >could be any screen reader, so the key meanings must be generic enough.
> >In the case of brltty, to get full support we could just use the brlapi
> >protocol instead.
> 
> The problem with keys is that each type of display tends to have a 
> fundamentally different layout so it may not be possible to map one display's 
> keys nicely to those of another.

Yes, but I guess there are at least some basic keys which should be
translatable in a generic way, like browsing arrows?

Samuel