Re: [orca-list] orca braille display keys

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 11:43 +0000, Chris Norman wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:18 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> ...
> 
> I probably would agree that flat review is fine for braille in most
> > cases, but in firefox (and possibly other apps) the page doesn't seem to
> > be possible to get at using flat review (even using flat review with
> > speech). This may need to be changed for certain apps to allow
> > convenient reading of documents from a braille display (so I can just
> > sit back and put my hands on the display and keep them there to read the
> > whole document).
> > 
> > Alternatively, not knowing whether brltty supports these keys on the
> > alva or if other displays even have enough keys suitable for this, you
> > could have two sets of braille navigation keys (on the alva I might
> > suggest the scroll keys at the front would navigate the control, as I
> > want for document reading, and then a satellite pad might be used for
> > flat review (that way as I feel flat review is normally not being used
> > for long document reading but just hunting something out on the screen,
> > so document reading should be more convenient)).
> > 
> > Anyone got thoughts on this topic, or any solutions for me?
> 
> Why could there not be a key command (on the keyboard) which would
> switch from the display being in flat review, to possibly (I am using a
> voyager Tieman thing) having the inner keys working directly as arrow
> keys?
> Yes that would be a good option as well.

> It would also be nice if the cursor keys could act as mouse clicks, 1
> click 2 click (for a double click), and 3 clicks for a right mouse
> button?
> For me as a alva user this seems a bit much, the alva has double cursor routing keys (two rows of them) and in windows using window-eyes one row behaves as right click and the other as left click. This is the thing, different displays have different buttons, I think there is one with triple cursor routing keys, so could even have one row as double click, so should orca have different braille key maps for different displays to get the most from them all or have one compromise.

From
Michael Whapples
> What do people think of that?
> 
> ORCA+t could be used to TOGGLE the state of the braille display.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> 
> > 
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:49 +0100, Hermann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I use the same braille display, and it's the same thing here.
> > > Braille always uses the flat review, I think.
> > > I remember discussions in this list las spring, where a majority of
> > > users viewed this as correct, and didn't see the necessity to change
> > > anything in displaying braille within Orca.
> > > Hermann
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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