[BRLTTY] Changing BRLTTY key mapping [repost]

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Vincent LE GOFF on 2018/03/09 at 12:58 +0100]

>I am using the Actilino (alo) and have been testing the ActiveBraille (ab40).  
>As it is, it sounds like the default mapping is not correct for either of 
>these devices.  By "correct", I mean that when using them in standalone mode 
>(as Braille notetakers) or plugged to a screen reader on Windows, simple 
>mapping (for navigation, for instance) is different. 

HandyTech support has been in brltty for a very long time. A lot of us lack 
experience with Windows screen readers, and I doubt the earlier HT models could 
function as notetakers. In other words, brltty's HT bindings may have been 
developed without much of an existing template to go by.

>However, by altering the problematic files, it would also affect a lot of 
>other handytech displays for which the mapping might be more accurate, I have 
>no idea.

Neither do I. Mario would be the best person to discuss this with. I'd hesitate 
to make any changes to the HT bindings without his advice.

>For instance, to go to the next Braille window (which is something
>one does very often, admittedly), the default key mapping is "Right
>Triple Action Key center (TRC)".  On other devices, it might be one
>key, but on the Actilino and ActiveBraille, that's two keys you have
>to press simultaneously. So only moving the Braille window requires
>two key presses (fortunately, they are close).  

They really did used to be triple action keys. On older models you just had to 
press the center of what was an actual rocker.

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