Re: [orca-list] Possible Braille improvements

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

Hi Jason,

I am using the latest package from Debian. The cursor just doesn't follow typing in Mate-terminal.

John

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:18:26AM -0400, Jason White wrote:
> 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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John J. Boyer
Email: john boyer abilitiessoft org
website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org
Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses  live.
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Mission: developing assistive technology software and providing STEM services 
        that are available at no cost