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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:50:11 -0400,
Alexander Epaneshnikov wrote:
> 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.

hmmm, I am using brltty only on the console and orca just does the
ordinary thing, I am not using brltty in some X console, but orca does
use brlapi to communicate.  I have /etc/brlapi.key set to world
readable.


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