Re: [orca-list] orca and braille

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Last time I looked at the problem, which admittedly was a while ago, the
liblouis feature John said I could use was not present in the Python
bindings -- that I could see, anyway. I asked about this and never got
any answer, and other things bubbled up. I'll re-add this to my list.
But if someone has the time to answer the question: "What specifically
needs to be done?", that would be quite helpful -- and giving me that
answer would raise its priority on my TODO list. :)

--joanie

On 03/02/2015 07:34 PM, Jason White wrote:
> Devin Prater <r d t prater gmail com> wrote:
> > In Orca, braille displays aren't treated very well, at least from what I can
> > tell. My APH refreshabraille shows the braille fine, besides not
> > word-wrapping at the end of lines of braille, but it also doesn't allow me
> > to type in braille or control Orca with braille commands. How can I fix
> > this?
>
> Arrange for someone with appropriate interest and expertise to contribute to
> Orca development, or at least, write good bug reports that describe the
> issues.
>
> I'm running Orca 3.14.3 with liblouis installed, but even so, I haven't been
> able to get contracted braille to work.
>
> Apparently, liblouis does support the necessary features for word wrap, but
> Orca doesn't take advantage of them, according to the author of liblouis, John
> Boyer.
>
> There's undoubtedly more work to be done here - a real problem for an
> under-resourced project. Linux distributors, especially the commercial ones
> who gain financially from the software created by the community, really need
> to pool their resources and fund a significant accessibility development
> effort.
>
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