On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Justin Cunningham wrote:
Hello,
The difficulty is that integration with a screen reader, e.g.
brltty, isn't ultimately very useful if there isn't any way to navigate the
braille display around the screen.
I see I’ve been misinterpreting what a screen reader does. I always thought
that the text that is displayed to you is the text that the mouse is currently
hovering over. When I played around with NVDA, the narrator spoke the text
being hovered over so I just assumed the same applied to Braille Displays but I
must be wrong.
We’re just trying to show that the prototype also works independent of human
input (e.g. right now, we have to manually type a character).
You are not entirely wrong. A screen reader does dosplay what is under
the cursor (mouse or otherwise). However because speech and braille are
limited to what they can show at one time you must be able to move around
the screen to get the context of what you are looking at. Thus the need
for navigation.
Tom
Thanks,
Justin
On 19 Dec 2019, at 15:49, Dave Mielke <[email protected]> wrote:
[quoted lines by Justin Cunningham on 2019/12/18 at 22:13 +0000]
My device is pretty barebones. It has no buttons and only one cell. I was
pointed towards the ‘skeleton’/starter driver in the Brltty GitHub repository.
Would that be enough (obviously after some modifying and altering) for my
display?
Yes, it would. The difficulty is that integration with a screen reader, e.g.
brltty, isn't ultimately very useful if there isn't any way to navigate the
braille display around the screen. Usually, of course, those are on the braille
device itself. If you were using Linux then there are tables that bind
navigation actions to the computer's keyboard. Unfortunatey, we haven't gotten
around to implementing that kind of support on Windows. While it can be, and
should be, done, it hasn't been high enough on the priority list so far.
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