Re: [orca-list] Braille/speech differs: misspelt words being reported

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com> wrote:
> Here's another difference although how should this be solved?
>
> When typing (eg. like now in thunderbird) if I misspell a word
> speech tells me misspelled but Braille gives no indication. Now this
> is a difference but is this a point where a difference either is
> wanted/doesn't matter? What I mean by this is that to use a flash
> message may not be wonderfully useful as my fingers while typing are
> on the keyboard and so cannot read the Braille display at the same
> time. I would say really I would want some way that Braille could
> mark misspelled words in Braille. I would like some way to be
> alerted, however I think speech/sound here is the only way (I was
> trying to consider those who may only use Braille).

If the errors can be highlighted in some way by the application when not in
focus, then you could use brackets (a unique 8-dot configuration for example)
or underlining (dots 7-8) to flag the words in question on the display.