[BRLTTY] Stand-alone portable document viewer for braille display?

2007-06-10 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, there are generally two ways to make apps accessible. One way, commonly used, is to expose some sort of information to so called screen reader, which is responsible for presenting these information to user. The other way is to incorporate speech synthesis and/or Braille support directly

Re: [BRLTTY] Stand-alone portable document viewer for braille display?

2007-06-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Tomas Valusek, le Sun 10 Jun 2007 16:30:49 +0200, a écrit : > So I¨d like to have some sort of text viewer displaying its > output on Braille display and being controlled mainly by Braille display > buttons, which would run along with other app, controlled visually. Brlapi permits this. >

[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on cygwin

2007-06-10 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, I just downloaded cygwin and chose brltty as its part. If I run brltty, console displays BRLTTY 3.8 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/] twice, but my ALVA 544 Satellite display doesn't seem to respond. Under Ubuntu live, it worked. ALVA is connected on USB. I have virgin cygwin install. What now?

Re: [BRLTTY] Stand-alone portable document viewer for braille display?

2007-06-10 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, thanks for your answer. Until a bless utility is available under Windows, I will try using cygwin. Tomas Valusek Samuel Thibault napsal(a): > Hi, > > Tomas Valusek, le Sun 10 Jun 2007 16:30:49 +0200, a écrit : > >> So I¨d like to have some sort of text viewer displaying its >> output

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on cygwin

2007-06-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tomas Valusek, le Sun 10 Jun 2007 16:49:08 +0200, a écrit : > I just downloaded cygwin and chose brltty as its part. If I run brltty, > console displays BRLTTY 3.8 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/] twice, but my > ALVA 544 Satellite display doesn't seem to respond. Under Ubuntu live, > it worked. ALVA

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on cygwin

2007-06-10 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, I ran libusb-install, testlibusb lists my ALVA display, BRLTTY finds it, but ... I need BRLTTY to stick to window from which it was activated. I don't need it to read any other window, actually, I need to run vim in my cygwin window, load text into it and switch to another app while sti

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on cygwin

2007-06-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tomas Valusek, le Sun 10 Jun 2007 17:53:43 +0200, a écrit : > I need BRLTTY to stick to window from which it was activated. > The other thing is that brltty.exe doesn't close itself upon cygwin > window close, but it should to do so. > > Is this possible? Well, it was not meant to work this way,

Re: [BRLTTY] Kernel 2.6.21 USB issues

2007-06-10 Thread Jason White
For others who are having this problem, try the following if you're comfortable compiling a kernel. In the make menuconfig menu, find the "USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup" option, which is in the USB sub-menu of the "devices" menu, and turn it off. For anyone looking at kernel config files

[BRLTTY] Cygwin and exitting BRLTTY

2007-06-10 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, I played a bit with BRLTTY under Cygwin, and the only way I found to exit BRLTTY is to kill it from task manager. Also, if I run brltty command in Cygwin, a new process is started, so I had in some times to kill five BRLTTYs. How to exit BRLTTY properly, so that preference menu option S