Re: [orca-list] Problems between orca and brltty

[Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2 gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:59:50AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  I am having some problems to get brltty properly interacting with
> orca.  I am using the latest brltty from git as of this morning and
> the latest orca from git.
>
> The problems I am having is that Brltty does not always read the same
> things as orca speech.  For instance, when I first login, orca reads
> push button, whereas brltty just says gnome-shell.  When I hit alt-f2
> orca reads nothing and brltty just says question mark for each
> character.  If I run chromium for instance, brltty does read where it
> says search bar, but if I hit shift tab, orca says customize chrome,
> but brltty just says a question mark.  And when I close orca, brltty
> says window without a name.

hmmm. your symptoms are similar to using a second brltty or xbrlapi
try disabling brltty in x session, and see if orca can actually connect
to brltty.

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici wb2una
>          covici ccs covici com

-- 
Sincerely, Alexander