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. [email protected]
On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 11:17 AM Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 with the > output. What back-end programs should I target and what interface(s) do > they generally want to deal with from input devices? For example, is there > an easy way in Linux for a user mode process to emulate a keyboard device? > > There are various ways to do that. If your output is really keypresses > you can emulate a keyboard thanks to Linux' uinput. If your output is > rather text, you can use atspi's atspi_generate_keyboard_event. You can > also rather implement an ibus module. > > > More generally, I'd like to get some feedback on a11y, system and user > interfaces, etc. For example: > > > > - What back-end programs should I target? > > - What kinds of gestures would folks want? > > - What sorts of interfaces should I present? > > > > Advice, caveats, clues, and pointers would all be welcome... > > I'd say start with determining what the user needs are precisely, before > looking at the technical details. > > Samuel > >
