[orca-list] Orca xterm braille Eclipse



Hello All,

 

I have a question regarding the use of a Braille device in the combination with an xterm sessions of eclipe. The situation is as follows: A colleague of mine is blind and depends on a freedomscientific focus 80 Braille device. He works normally with windows and that works reasonable. But for a new application he needs to use eclipse on a Linux box. First we tried to simply use exceed on his PC. Visually that works, he gets the screen, but Jaws (his screen reader package) only reports a blank screen, no information on what is on the screen.

We were told that it should work better if you use a Linux (gnome) desktop. So we installed Linux (RHEL 6) and activated Orca to see if that would work. But now I’m running into several problems. First of all, the Braille device doesn’t work in graphical mode (the Orca Braille monitor shows the correct data, but the device doesn’t). If I start the Linux box in non-graphical mode the Braille device works and shows the correct information. But as I explained we need the graphical interface.

 

Next problem I have is when I display an xterm session on the Linux box Orca doesn’t show any information from inside the xterminal (the Braille monitor stays blank).

 

The big question is, does the combination xterm – Braille device work at all? Has anybody such a combination running? And the next question would be, how did they get it to work.

 

If you need more information, just ask …

 

PS I use brltty as Braille device driver.


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