Re: [orca-list] minor issues with braille support

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

Well, I know part of the problem. Looking through my logs, there's a 
traceback when the contracted braille switch is turned on, in liblouis. 
I'm not sure if this means it's a liblouis error or orca's code that 
interfaces with it.

Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 08/26/2016 05:29 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
>
> Storm sent me an old braille sense to test braille support on. It's a 
> lot more fiddly than I would like, but this is not an orca issue. You 
> have to change the permissions on the brlapi.key file before orca can 
> communicate with the display. However there is one issue with this 
> particular display. It doesn't seem to support contracted braille. 
> When I attempt to enable contracted braille in orca's braille 
> settings, the display goes blank and no longer keeps up with orca. If 
> I disable the option, orca can once again talk to the display. I have 
> had no problems with the display keeping up, I've used various 
> applications without issue. I'm beginning to wonder if this is a 
> display issue or a liblouis or brltty issue? I hope I'm not wasting 
> anyone's time, I'm very new to braille support so I could be missing 
> something obvious. I did change teh contraction table to en-uebg2, 
> followed by pressing the ok button. This is with orca master, 
> completely up to date, and sonar linux, also up to date, version 16.07.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark