[BRLTTY] question about Jaws support

[Velegi István]

Dear Henk,

As brltty works on 64 bit windows, I think this way it will become 
possible to use an old braille display with 64 bit version of Jaws of 
course with some limitations.
Greetings,
Istvan
2014.04.19. 18:07 keltezéssel, Henk Abma írta:
> Hello,
>
> Just curious, why would you want to do this?
>
> Most older braille displays don't have 64-bit drivers, so your 
> solution, if possible, would only work on 32-bit windows. If you just 
> want to experiment, you could just as well use JAWS 10 or earlier, 
> which don't require the driver being signed.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Henk.
>
>
>
>
> Velegi István schreef op 4/19/2014 1:13 AM:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Thank you for your answers.
>>
>> I have an idea to solve this problem. I know it's quite complicated 
>> but it may
>> work.
>>
>> First, I would emulate a serial port for which jaws could send the 
>> data of a known braille display which has signed jaws driver, e.g. 
>> Braille lite or powerbraille.
>> Then I would make a program which receives the information from the 
>> port and emulates a known display for Jaws.
>> Finally I would implement an algorithm to make it possible to 
>> communicate with brltty.
>>
>> For this, the powerbraille would be the best, because it has parallel 
>> support on Jaws, and it has the widest range of functions which a 
>> braille display can have in general: navigating buttons, cursor 
>> routing keys.
>>
>> In Jaws, only a known braille display (mentioned above) would be 
>> necessary to be added.
>>
>> What do you think about this?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Istvan
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