[BRLTTY] Using Brltty for Android without TalkBack

[Siena Trigiani]

Hi Trish,

Thank you so much for your help! Will definitely have a look at 
braillepen.com and contact Harpo if need be. Just out of curiosity, why 
would I need to keep BrailleBack running? Wouldn't BrailleBack and Brltty 
interfere with one another? As far as turning off speech in TalkBack, 
there's no way to do this without suspending TalkBack altogether.

Again, many thanks for your help! :)


On June 2, 2018 10:18:20 PM Trish Fraser <trish at thefrasers.org> wrote:

> Hi Siena,
>
> From memory, you need to have both BrailleBack and TalkBack running,
> and turn the voice off in TalkBack if you need to. There's a lot of
> info (including contact info for Harpo or your dealer) at
> braillepen.com.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> The Braille Display I have is a BraillePen 12 Touch. It doesn't have
>> USB support, and can only be connected via Bluetooth. On the Android
>> app, there doesn't seem to be any drivers for that particular
>> display, but Brltty auto-detects the BraillePen when it's paired via
>> Bluetooth to my tablet.
>>
>> Will try to google the commands and see what I can find.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>>
>> On June 2, 2018 8:36:18 PM Brian Tew <montanalag at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I believe those commands would be device specific.
>> > What braille display will you use?
>> > you can google "brltty commands display-name."
>> > But I don't mind noing it if it's a problem for you.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jun 2, 2018, at 5:44 PM, Siena Trigiani
>> > <siena.trigiani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > Although I have been using Android since March of 2015, I am very
>> > new to the Brltty app and to this list, so I hope that I am asking
>> > this question in the right place.
>> >
>> > Yesterday I installed the Brltty app for Android. I have a
>> > BraillePen 12 Touch display from a company called Harpo. Although
>> > Brltty does not have the drivers for this particular display, I was
>> > able to pair it using the auto-detect function. However I don't
>> > know any of the commands to go to the previous and next item, jump
>> > to top or to bottom of the screen etc. I have a faulty joystick on
>> > my display, and I can't seem to get it into the down position for
>> > some reason, and even when I flick it to the left or to the right,
>> > it does not go to the previous or next item. Thus, I have
>> > difficulty reading through apps such as the Play Store and
>> > AquaMail, which is the app that I use to read my emails. I tried
>> > using Dots 1 chord through Dot 6 chord individually to move forward
>> > or backwards one item at a time, but they didn't seem to be
>> > consistent. I tried reading the blurb on the Brltty website on
>> > Using Brltty for Android, and there doesn't seem to be any specific
>> > documentation to clarify this. I would like to suspend TalkBack and
>> > use Brltty without having to depend on TalkBack to navigate and
>> > read the screen from top to bottom. Perhaps there is something that
>> > I am not doing correctly? In the Brltty actions menu, when I go to
>> > read the user guide, Brltty crashes, and I get that all too
>> > familiar message: "Unfortunately, Brltty has stopped." Running
>> > Brltty on an RCA Viking Pro tablet running Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
>> >
>> > Could anyone on the list please send me a copy of the user guide
>> > for Brltty for Android off list? Does Brltty have a list of Braille
>> > keyboard shortcuts for navigating?
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide!
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> >
>> > Siena.
>> >
>> >
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