On Braille and Linux

2022-04-03 Thread Rich Morin
Thanks to Samuel and Devin for their input. As Devin said: > Smart phones use touchscreen braille input to make typing faster. ... > This attempts to bring this to Linux smart phones and such like that. This is precisely my goal. I'd like to provide touchscreen braille input for Linux smart ph

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-03 Thread Devin Prater
Oh no, I wasn't meaning to put more work on Joanie. I meant Rich could work on that, since he'd have to get used to working on other technologies besides, and he'd have to patch that into Orca anyway so why not get used to the internals now. Also this could help bring trackpad navigation to Orca as

Re: Having a d-i boot timeout for enabling speech?

2022-04-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Philip Hands, le lun. 28 févr. 2022 09:31:04 +0100, a ecrit: > One could have a very prominent visual notice at the start of the speech > install pointing out to people that if they want a normal install all > they need to do is hit Ctrl-Alt-DEL to restart the boot, and then make > any sort

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Devin Prater, le dim. 03 avril 2022 12:02:59 -0500, a ecrit: > I'd work on getting Orca working on it first before working on a text > input method, Well "Orca" is mostly about Joanie alone, so I'd say avoid putting yet more load on her and work on a text input method. Samuel

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-03 Thread Devin Prater
Smart phones use touchscreen braille input to make typing faster. Devin Prater. This attempts to bring this to Linux smart phones and such like that. I'd work on getting Orca working on it first before working on a text input method, but that's just me lol. r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Sun, Apr 3,

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le mer. 30 mars 2022 21:29:48 -0700, a ecrit: > AFAIK, there isn't any braille screen input support for Linux, AIUI, you mean using a touch screen or touch pad to type Braille? I'm not aware of anything like that. > One major issue is that I'm not at all clear on how to deal w

Re: We need a new package for brltty 6.4.

2022-04-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
John J. Boyer, le dim. 03 avril 2022 02:40:11 -0500, a ecrit: > The current brlty does not do word wrap for contracted braille and it > sometimes stops working for mutt and lynx. From the brltty list it appears > that these problems have been fixed. Please provide a new package for brltty > 6.4.

Re: We need a new package for brltty 6.4.

2022-04-03 Thread john doe
On 4/3/2022 9:40 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: The current brlty does not do word wrap for contracted braille and it sometimes stops working for mutt and lynx. From the brltty list it appears that these problems have been fixed. Please provide a new package for brltty 6.4. Feel free to go ahead.

We need a new package for brltty 6.4.

2022-04-03 Thread John J. Boyer
The current brlty does not do word wrap for contracted braille and it sometimes stops working for mutt and lynx. From the brltty list it appears that these problems have been fixed. Please provide a new package for brltty 6.4. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org w