Dear list members, I am very interested in BRLTTY as a visually impaired computer user. I have a basic knowledge of programming but not enough to engage as a developer!
I am helping a windows-based teaching project for young blind students who are learning the Irish language and need to input text in Irish using a braille keyboard and be able to read and feel braille codes depicting Irish words. I am running Windows 7 on a Del 64-bit laptop with a choice of two screen readers, JAWS 14 and NVDA. I find NVDA to be the most user friendly of these two. I have a Braille Lite 2000 which I am able to interface with NVDA to display the text strings which NVDA speaks out through the eSpeak synthesiser. To do this I have installed BRLTTY and run "install.bat". I can see that this has started the BrlAPI service. I notice that NVDA only sends strings to the braille Lite when this service is running. I have run BRLTTY config and set this to Braille lite on com 7. I see that there is also a module called BRLTTY.exe. Should I run this? What does it do? I cannot make this connection easily every time so I suspect that I am doing something wrong! Can you advise me where to begin, how to get to know the project and how to create a completely interactive link between the PC, BRLTTY and NVDA using standard English braille? The target of this exercise is to enable a blind student to input text into a Word file from the braille keyboard in Irish braille code and read the written text on the braille display also in Irish grade 1 braille code. Once I am familiar with the connection to BRLTTY in standard English braille I can then start to see how to bring the Irish code into the system. I look forward to hearing from you or anyone else in the BRLTTY project. Yours sincerely, Cearbhall O'Meadhra m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: [email protected] . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- I use the free version of Spam Reader to get rid of spam. The Professional version doesn't have this disclaimer in outgoing emails. Try Spam Reader (http://www.spam-reader.com) for free now! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- I use the free version of Spam Reader to get rid of spam. The Professional version doesn't have this disclaimer in outgoing emails. Try Spam Reader (http://www.spam-reader.com) for free now! _______________________________________________ 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
