Dear Sébastien!
Am 16.01.23 um 22:02 schrieb Sébastien Hinderer:
Hey Volker!
Veyr nice e-mail, very nice question! thanks!
Your welcome!
It's not that often that sighted persons try to work with blind persons
in such a close way and I am guessing this is why the tools are not more
developed than they are now. It's still impressiing how you have dived
deeply into the topic.
In fact It is a 10 years experiance with brltty and several braille
displays my bother used.
But only recently my brother is interested in doing more than mp3
ripping of his CDs :-)
As you may or may not know, there is already a feature to highlight on
screen the window which is currently displayed in braille. Not sure
whether that works through tmux or not but would be curious to hear
about it in both cases.
That's a really interesting feature. I oft only can guess where my bro
is looking too.
How can I activate this feature?
In a similar way, it should in theory be possible to mark on-screen the
text as it gets selected. However, it may be difficult to make the
feature work in a consistent way because, once the text is in brltty's
clipboard, it remains there even when no longer on screen. So I imagine
it would be possible to highlight the beginning of the selected text,
and then perhaps also its end, but then the sighted user would have no
clue on whether it's a linear or rectangular "cut", whether it's getting
accumulated in the clipboard or whether it replaces the current
clipboard content. So the feature already seems challenging to design.
Perhaps more challenging to design than to actually implement, once the
design has been decided.
I am eager to reading input from others, more advanced and experienced
users and developers from the list.
I think this may be a really intersting project. But I share your doubts
that a consistent implementation may be really hard.
Also it may quite confusingto the sighted person as well as the braille
user. I can imaging infinite highligthing loops occuring.
Just my two cents.
Cheers,
Volker
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