Dave Mielke <[email protected]> writes: >>> Another approach would be a help viewer for the command-line. >> >>I second that. A keybinding that shows the help on the braille display >>doesn't help a sighted person helping the blind person using the braille >>device. > > But how well will that work in an installer environment?
Well, a installer could present stdout of that tool to the user in any way it wanted to. i.e., in debian-installer, the brltty-udeb package could present a debconf dialog showing the help for the currently connected display. This would only be done if a display is connected. We'll have to add BrlAPI into the installer package mix, but since there are plans to integrate orca into the graphical installer, we'll have to do this at some point anyway. > Although, how well does keyboard interception work in an installer > environment as well? I am not sure keyboard interception would help here. If a user doesn't know the key to press to get help, they wont know it regardless if they press it on the keyboard or the braille display. While I realize there is a small difference due to displays having very different keyboard layouts, I still think we are trying to solve a non-issue here. We could, for absolute clarity, maintain a webpage on mielke.cc/brltty which lists the help key combinations for all supported display types. But I am not sure this is really going to help. I mean, its not like rocket science to figure this stuff out if you really want to. Lets see, lets pretend I have no svn checkout of brltty, and want to know about the Alva BC640 key mappings. Hmm: http://mielke.cc/svn/main/brltty/Drivers/Braille/Alva/help2.txt Voila, there we go. Well, I guessed the websvn URL, and google hasn't found it yet. Maybe we could just create an index which links all these help files? -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[email protected] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
