Re: [orca-list] orca and braille



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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