Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 10:02:26 -0400, a ecrit: > Seems like a similar approach to how keystrokes get passed from the keyboard > to the screen reader as well as the other applications, should be put in > place? Concerning the protocol by itself (X or Wayland), there can be an ext

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:42 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 09:36:53 -0400, a ecrit: >> >>> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> >>> Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a ecrit: Please excuse my ignorance. It seems

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 09:36:53 -0400, a ecrit: > > > On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a ecrit: > >> Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native > >> Linux touch interface

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a ecrit: >> Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native Linux >> touch interface that is accessible, or did I totally miss something? > > Touch screens do

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a ecrit: > Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native Linux > touch interface that is accessible, or did I totally miss something? Touch screens do work on Linux, they show up as a mouse. Samuel

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native Linux touch interface that is accessible, or did I totally miss something? Having Braille on touch screen input is a nice to have. We need a way to navigate a touch based GUI first, unless I've missed something. --FC > On A

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: 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

On Braille and Linux

2022-03-30 Thread Rich Morin
AFAIK, there isn't any braille screen input support for Linux, so I've been considering trying to implement some. To be clear, I'm thinking about a program that detects and characterizes touch events and then recognizes gestures, and finally reports on these as Unicode sequences. Approach My