[BRLTTY] Attribute cursor.

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Lee Maschmeyer, le Tue 17 Mar 2009 14:49:52 -0400, a écrit :
> > Note that one profile per program is the way Windows screen readers work, 
> > and Windows is a vastly more complicated environment than the Unix console.
> 
> I wouldn't say so.  The unix console has a vast amount of various tools
> for which you'd have to write a profile.

Furthermore, as soon as you lack a profile for some application, then 
you're out of luck and have to resort to manual searching for the 
cursor.

Last time I wandered in the Windows world, those screen readers had 
profiles only for a few applications.  I say "few" here because there 
are simply too many applications for them all to have a profile. So, 
while Office and IE were rather well supported, this wasn't the case for 
less mainline applications.
 And of course as soon as you customize your toolbar or other widgets 
(or colors and/or screen layout in this case) then the profile doesn't 
work anymore until you also tweak the profile and maintain those changes 
separately.

This is why I think having good heuristics to get away without any 
profile is a better solution.  It might be more difficult to implement 
than a simple profile based solution of course, but overall results 
should be better.


Nicolas