Re: [orca-list] Braille capabilities of Orca

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
Orca still uses brltty for Braille output in gnome with applications 
like openoffice, firefox, etc. Orca does it by passing brltty the 
information on what should be shown rather than brltty gathering the 
screen information from its own internal driver. So when you have brltty 
running but until you enable Braille support in orca when in gnome you 
will find your Braille display says "screen not in text mode", but when 
you turn on Braille support your Braille display should give useful output.

One good thing with this is that when you go from gnome to a text 
console (eg. ctrl+alt+f1) Braille will just continue to work, it works 
just as well when moving back to gnome.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, James & Nash wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>  From what I've been reading, BRLTTY is used to provide Braille access during a console session. But is there 
> anything for Orca to use when implementing Braille access to the graphical GNOME Desktops and applications 
> such as Open Office?
>
> Thanks
>
> TC
>
> James
>