Re: [orca-list] Locking keys and braille

["Paul Hunt" <huntp ukonline co uk>]

Hi,

Surely a flash message is the way to do this.

Sorry I'm a bit new to braille displays, having only just got one and not 
yet managing to get the thing working on Ubuntu, but in Windows with JAWS 
flash messages appear for just a few seconds then the display goes back to 
showing whatever it was previously displaying.  I think displays usually 
have a key to bring up the last flash message that was displayed in case you 
missed it.

Reserving cells or using status cells not such a good idea I'd volunteer cos 
a lot of displays have a very limited number of cells (mine's only got 20) 
and not all displays have status cells.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Christian" <christian08 runbox com>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Locking keys and braille


> Hi Christian:
>
> Can you provide a suggestion for how/where/when the locking keys should be 
> presented in braille?  For example, would it be a temporary thing? Would 
> you want to reserve cells (or use the status cells on some braille 
> displays) purposely for the locking key state?
>
> On a related note, Dave Mielke, the author of BrlTTY, has also written 
> something called "Locktones" that generates audible tones to indicate the 
> status of locking keys: http://mielke.cc/packages/locktones.html
>
> Will
>
> Christian wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > When pressing the capslock key or the numlock key it's state is only 
> > announced in speech. It would be nice if that would be presented on the 
> > braille display as well.
> > Best regards,
> > Christian
> >
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