[BRLTTY] brltty new user

[kendell clark]

hi
I think what he's asking for is each new line of new text to be spoken
as it comes in. EG if you enter a room, you'd hear the room description
and the exits. He doesn't want the entire screen spoken every time you
move, you'd have to hear past info that way and it would quickly get
annoying. I'm not sure how you'd do it, you're right speakup is built
into the kernel. The advantage brltty has is that it's in practically
every linux distribution, even those that aren't focused strictly on
accessibility. Speakup is only present in distros that enable staging
kernel modules, and not all do. Fedora doesn't, and I'm guessing
archlinux arm doesn't either.
Thanks
Kendell Clark
           

Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/02 at 08:54 -0400]
>
>> Oh, I must be misunderstanding what autoread is supposed to do. 
> I assume you mean autospeak. What brltty's autospeak feature does is to speak 
> changes to the current line. It has various subsettings so that you can 
> optionally have different types of changes spoien, e.g. typed characters, 
> deleted characters, replaced characters, selected characters, etc.
>
>> I wonder if y'all would consider adding a setting to read text as it comes in? 
>> It would make mudding and some other tasks a lot easier.
> This is probably somethnig that Speakup does. Since it's within the kernel, it 
> can easily hook into the place where characters are written to the screen. 
> Brltty can't do that quite so easily because it runs outside the kernel and can 
> only inspect what's currently on the screen.
>
> As far as I can recall, you're the first user who's asking for this feature. 
> I'm wondering, therefore, out of ignorance and curiosity more than anything 
> else, how it'd make a task easier as it could mean a lot of extra speaking. The 
> way we'd tackle it from a braille perspective would be to use the brltty 
> command that goes back to the previous command prompt, and then to start 
> reading forward from there.
>