Re: [orca-list] orca braille display keys

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I think I sort of understand the thinking. Scroll left and right moves
the display on the current text which would be sent to it should it have
been big enough. IE. At any time orca may send a string of length 80
characters, and should I have a display of size 80, then it will all be
shown, whereas on my 44 cell display, it is like having access to only
44 cells of that 80 cell display at any given time.

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?

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