Re: [orca-list] braille compared to speech

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 20.09.2008 at 14:29:16 Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a question about braille: why aren't orca-specific messages
> printed in braille, just spoken? eg. numpad 0 and numpad enter says the
> title, but doesn't braille it. I'm sure there are others, but that is
> the most obvious to me... Would anyone who can code think this should be
> added?
Despite the fact that I cannot add this to Orca, I doubt that this are
the main things regarding braille and Orca:
You can always read a portion of the screen by scrolling to the wanted
position using the keys of your braille display. So, for example, to the
top/bottom of the screen. So what's the use in doubbling this when using
speech?
There are other things that are more important:
- Why isn't it possible to increase Orca's responsiveness in braille?
When I perform any action using my braille display (Alva Satellite 544),
I have to wait a few seconds till I see a result? And when the screen has
a lot of content, this amount of seconds rises, so in Thunderbird with a
large inbox.
- Why is it not possible to use the line-left line-right commands of my
display to scroll the screen, so for example in FF, where I have to use
line-up line-down to scroll one line for/back and then line-left
line-right to read the second part of the current line?
- I set up braille to show dots 7 and 8 when text is selected. This does
not work reliable, so in Thunderbird, where I cannot use braille to
check what text I've selected. The same with links in FF, although I
activated dots 7-8 to indicate focused links.
Finally: Is it possible to use Orca with braille only? This is necessary
when working in a group, where speech might be disturbing.
Hermann