Re: [orca-list] Possible Braille improvements

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

I think I fixed the braille cursor handling. Joanie merged my changes into master. If you aren't running a 
recent Orca from the Git master branch, upgrading and testing would be a good idea.

Moving the caret via the braille display isn't possible yet. However, my understanding is that work may be 
done to enable the braille device to simulate keystrokes to support braille input. This may include cursor 
keys as well as page-up/page-down.

On 5/29/20, 04:42, "orca-list on behalf of John J. Boyer" <orca-list-bounces gnome org on behalf of john 
boyer abilitiessoft org> wrote:

    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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