[BRLTTY] brltty speech

mattias mjonsson1986 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 01:06:39 EDT 2014


dave how to open this menu?
i have a baum super vario2 40
and a braille pen12

Dave Mielke skrev 2014-03-30 22:53:
> [quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/30 at 20:19 +0200]
>
>> as far as I can tell, firefox appears to talk to talkback and
>> brailleback sort of uses the same information. When I disable
>> talkback, brltty only shows the last focussed item in firefox. As
>> soon as I load a new page, brltty informs me that a geckoview had
>> opened and if the page is loaded, however I cannot navigate the
>> contents of the page. As soon as I aneble talkback and tap places on
>> the screen, brltty echoes the spoken output. Using gestures on screen
>> I can navigate to next->previous link etc, however I cannot do this
>> using brltty.
> That makes sense. At present, brltty doesn't respond to the gestures. That's so
> that it won't interfere with TalkBack's Explore by Touch feature. It's too bad,
> in my opinion, that Explore by Touch is a TalkBack feature rather than a
> standalone feature in its own right. Do you think it'd be useful for brltty to
> support gestures if (and only if) TalkBack isn't running, or, I suppose, even
> if it is, if its Explore by Touch feature is off?
>
>> I had no luck using brltty speech either. I can choose between none
>> and native, however no further options appear. The only thing brltty
>> has said to me so far is it's versionnumber.
> The rest of the options are in brltty's preferences menu. Go into the
> preferences menu, find the speech options submenu, and open it. That's where
> you'll find the various options you're looking for. At the very least, you'll
> need to turn on Autospeak.
>



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