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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