[orca-list] Possible Braille improvements

["John J. Boyer" <john boyer abilitiessoft org>]

Hello,

I've been using Orca with a Focus 40 Braille display on Mate on Debian Buster for a while.
It looks like the Orca developers and the NVDA (for Windows) developers may have been borrowing from each 
others' work. This is a good thing. Some more NVDA 
features would be helpful. For example, NVDA defines a page metaphor consisting of line lengths and lines per 
page. Pages can be "fliped" by pressing the 
page-down and page-up keys. This would be nice in Orca. 

In terminal mode the cursor does not track typing. It is usually stuck at the beginning of the line. When I 
use Firefox and Chromium the display is usually blank 
when they start. Doing something that would cause the cursor to move wakes things up. 

I would like to help make improvements in Braille, but I'm not very experienced in Python.

Thanks,
John

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John J. Boyer
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