I changed the subject line; there's no use people who want to talk
only about the progress on a braille terminal having to wade through
such messages.
From the message Gabe posted, I would conjecture that Dave and
others may have given up on hearing from apple, since he talks about
creating a native screen driver. My own feeling is that apple maybe
does not want to give out this information; since from what I've
heard Apple did not want a third party doing speech accessibility. As
for this missing information being
the whole ball game", I don't think that would be something that
could be ascertained without talking directly to brltty devellopers
and finding out that there's information that could be shared to
solve this problem.
As for a braille program just taking its text from vo, my problem
with this is that the braille would then have exactly the
capabilities and shortcomings of vo; anything that vo couldn't figure
out, braille would also be unable to access. This might make little
difference or a lot of difference, but I'd frankly rather, if
possible, have a system that can read the screen for itself than one
that has to depend on vo for everything. the point that you can
quickly put together something just using vo's caption pannel may or
may not be correct, but how would you know without making some effort
to work with brltty developers. A deaf-blind person might be glad to
have any braille program, but why should we settle for a lesser
option if there's a possibility of porting an already-established
excellent program? Either there are facts of which I am unaware which
are not being shared or a lot of assumptions are being made. I will
also mention that brltty has the ability to read bootup messages,
etc. instead of just starting up at login, which can be very helpful
to a machine's administrator, though of course I do not know whether
this will be possible in macox. But it's one more reason to explore
the possibility of porting it.
I certainly can't force anybody to work on brlltty, nor was that my
intention; I simply wanted to make people aware of the possibility
and find out why it was being ignored. I really have nothing more to
say on this subject that would be helpful; anybody interested should
contact Dave or the brltty list, as I have said before.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
