[BRLTTY] unaccessible apps with brltty

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Mar 17 11:29:51 EDT 2009


[quoted lines by Hermann on 2009/03/17 at 16:13 +0100]

>during the last days I often had to use programs like alsamixer or the
>interface of aumix.
>I had to realize that those programs are hardly accessible with Brltty,
>so I have to switch to SBL in ordr to adjust my Alsa settings.
>Those programs use an attribute cursor, which is not recognized by
>Brltty.
>Another example is the Midnight Commander (mc).
>So what can a brltty user do to access these apps? Are there plans to
>extend brltty's features so that one can set attribute cursor settings?

How do screen readers which support attribute cursors know which attribute 
combination is being used as the cursor? That can be different for each 
application.

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