[BRLTTY] Mapping a braille display input character to a computer-keyboard/browser character.

[Siju Samuel]

Hi Dave,

>>On a real device you just press all the dot keys together. One who types
in
>>braille is used to using several fingers at once. A sighted user who types
>>with, say, just his two thumbs (as is commonly done on a mobile phone)
might
>>find this difficult to understand.

This is an important information I  missed to  infer so far. ( though I was
looking at braille and related  technical material occasionally for the
last couple of months; but with out an actual device).   Thank you very
much.

So just to confirm,  in my scenario of entering the text "ab" on a braille
device,

a is dot-1
b is dot 1-2

For letter "b", the brltty's   ONE  readKey()  will get the unicode (or
brltty code) corresponding to dot-1-2  in an actual device (just one read) .
 Unlike the way i initially understood as it require two readKey() for the
letter "b".

Thanks,
Siju Samuel





On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Siju Samuel on 2013/09/26 at 12:06 -0500]
>
> >Yes.  It is the  XWindow driver simulator.   I am pressing DOT1 and
> >DOT2 separately in sequence using mouse. Do there have any option to
> >press simultaneously.
>
> That may not be possible. I'm not able to use that driver so I can't test
> it.
>
> >And in actual device how is it done.
>
> On a real device you just press all the dot keys together. One who types in
> braille is used to using several fingers at once. A sighted user who types
> with, say, just his two thumbs (as is commonly done on a mobile phone)
> might
> find this difficult to understand.
>
> >And is it possible do to in the simulator.
>
> I'm sure it could be made to work, but I don't think it can be done right
> now.
>
> >Another related question , we are going to get Freedom Scienific Focus 14
> >for initial development.  In the README ( for FreedomScientific Driver ,
> >did not see Focus 14). So is it compatible with brltty.
>
> The Focus 14 works very well with brltty.
>
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