[BRLTTY] unaccessible apps with brltty

[Stéphane Doyon]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Mario Lang wrote:

>> 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.
>
> They usually do it by defining the various attribute combinations in
> so called "profiles" and either switch profiles automatically based on the
> current screen content, or offer the user a way to
> switch between "profiles" on demand.  Its really no rocket science.

What might be nice, assuming it's feasible, would be to add a command to 
designate a screen character with attributes you would like tracked. So in 
a new app, you fumble around a bit and figure out where the cursor is, 
then tell BRLTTY with a command, presumably using a cursor routing key. 
BRLTTY looks at the attributes for that character and tries to track that.


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Stéphane Doyon
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