Supporting More Braille Devices (Was Re: What Workd with Gnopernicus?)

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Bill,

What are the plans for supporting more braille displays? I have two 
different ones, and neither is supported. Brltty supports both. Are there 
plans to interface the brltty drivers with Gnopernicus? Brltty also has a 
Grade 2 translation facility. That would be very nice to have in 
Gnopernicus also. I heard that Dave Mielke, the maintainer of brltty, was 
working on an interface, but I have not been able to get any other 
information. 

On my the lack of output on my display, I can understand the truncation, 
but I don't understand why there is nothing from the screen reader 
functions. I have inactivated speech, magnification and the braille 
monitor. Perhaps this is having side effects. I do have the accessibility 
key set.

I've been acquainting myself with the code for the braille feature. 
Perhaps i can be of help in resolving these difficulties.

Thanks,
John
 On 19 May 2003, 
Bill Haneman wrote:

> Hi John:
> 
> To the best of my knowledge the gnopernicus braille modules work fine;
> however it appears to me that your braille device isn't supported yet,
> judging from your description of the output you see (when you see it).
> 
> I believe that the relative lack of output on your braille display (as
> opposed to the truncation) may be due to an underlying problem.  But
> your braille device is not on the "officially working with gnopernicus"
> list.
> 
> Mozilla does work, albeit incompletely.  All the other Linux browsers,
> except Opera which has no accessibility support, are based on the
> Mozilla engine; mozilla is definitely the furthest ahead with regard to
> accessibility.  Gnome-terminal does work but there are undoubtedly
> issues when using it with ncurses-type programs like pine and
> lynx/links.  As for Evolution, accessibility is on the roadmap but needs
> to be prioritized higher; perhaps you could ping the evolution
> maintainers?
> 
> StarOffice/OpenOffice should start to be usable in their next (6.1/1.1)
> release.
> 
> regards,
> 
> - Bill
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 22:07, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > As many of you know, i am trying to get braille output from Gnopernicus. 
> > So far I get only the welcome and goodby messages - and truncated at that. 
> > It appears that the braille modules don't really work yet. I hope that if 
> > fixed in the next release.
> > 
> > Looking forward to that, I am wondering what Gnome applications work well 
> > enought with gnopernicus to warrant testing for possible day-to-day use. 
> > Gedit is reported to work. How about Evolution, which I would want for 
> > e-mail. Mozilla doesn't work yet. Is there another browser that does? How 
> > about Gnome-terminal? I assume that this is a GUI version of a VT100 
> > terminal, so I could run command-line programs like pine and Lynx under 
> > it.
> > 
> > I'm particularly interested in Glade, but I understand that I might have 
> > to contribute to this project to make it really accessible.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > John
> > 
> > 
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