Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> wrote:
Today I was in the Message Plus app, sending a text message. I was trying
to
bring focus to the edit input area where you could type a message. I hit
space
dot 4 to move down the line, and I saw: Type a Message, but the block
style
cursor did not appear until I picked up the phone and actually swiped on
the
screen to bring up the text box.
Did you try pressing the first routing key to bring the cursor there?
That worked. But the block style cursor did not show up indicating a text
area. That's what was throwing me off.
Then, when I wanted to hit the send button, I tried doing so from the
braille
device, but hitting the first routing key above the Send button only made
a
beep sound. This button is supposed to bring accessibility focus to the
element, and the second is supposed to tap or click it. This did not
happen.
That should've worked. Have you done anything interesting like enable
contracted braille or switch to the experimental two-dimensional layout?
Contracted braille is enabled. Since the send button is capitalized, and
since that takes up one cell, I actually hit the second button--the one over
the letter s--to bring focus. Just to be sure, though, I hit the first
button, too--the one over the dot six indicating capital.
Just to verify: Are you pressing the routing keys separately or in
combination
with some other key(s)? For these functions, they should be pressed by
themselves.
I am indeed pressing them by themselves.
And Brltty is not always following me. For instance, when on the home
screen,
Brltty stays stuck on something called Quick Notifications. It does not
track
properly in list views either (such as the conversations list in Message
plus), and sometimes it stops responding altogether.
This sounds like an old problem that brltty started to have with Android
5.0.
How recent is the apk you installed, and where did you get it from?
I downloaded the App On July twenty-third, I believe, from brltty.com.
>>Perhaps it is the bluetooth protocol,
No, that wouldn't be a possibility. How brlrtty communicates with your
device
wouldn't matter for this kind of thing, unless, of course, your braille
device
and phone are far enough apart that the Bluetooth signal between them
simply
isn't strong enough.
I keep the Braille device around my neck and the phone in its case on my
belt, so, yes, this isn't likely to be the issue. I'm not that tall. Grin.
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