Though I cannot remember getting the message the initial poster refered to, I can confirm the braille display to every now and then dropping out, and requiring me to turn it physically Off and back On, or to restart WE. Has been the case ever since I started with WE, way back a decade ago. I did report it, and was told that it all would be due to the driver, provided by Handitech (the manufacturer), and that GW could do nothing. I have updated to latest driver for the actual Braille display, and never got any better result.
WE has never had good Braille support, the way I see it. I have a feeling, it is more important to get as many Braille displays entered on the list of supported models, than actually to get any of them working completely. Whether this is due to WE, or the manufacturers simply do not care to develop good enough drivers, I am not the one to determine. Sometimes, I get a feeling a rewrite of the Braille code in WE, would have been in place. Not even sure what time they last did have any real update on the Braille side of town. Guess the philosophy is that there is not enough Braille users, and therefore efforts have been increasingly been put on speech, and general features. Leaving the number of Braille users behind. What will be interesting though, is to see what will happen to the number of Braille users, now that new and far more cheap displays hit the market. When people will be able to buy a Braille display less than 500 dollars, I wonder if that will encourage the users to start using Braille on their computer, thereby encouraging the screen reader manufacturers to raise their endeavors on Braille features again. On 1/25/2017 8:25 PM, Vaughan Dodd via Talk wrote: > Unfortunately: braile display failure when running Firefox or Internet > Explorer is a frequent occurrence, although I do not get the same error > message that you've described. > VFO are overdue in my book to fix this. When we had GW Micro, and then AI > Squared, several users reported a similar problem. > > And to add to the feeling that the JFW habbit of adding new features to ones > which have bugs is now part of the culture, if we now have BrailleNote touch > as a new display, why wasn't this braille display failure fixed as well? > > > I have access to three 40 cell displays from three different manufacturers > and they run on two different machines with different Windows versions. In > all instances, the displays fail independently of their individual patterns > for self imposing stand-by. For me - they come back to life through a > Window-eyes closure and restart. > > > Vaughan. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Pele West via Talk > Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2017 10:38 p.m. > To: Windows Talk List > Subject: Braille Display Not Working > > Hi Everyone > > Further to my previous message about my braille display stopping when using > Firefox, I have just tried it on the Sainsbury's website and it stopped > working. > > Window-Eyes said "Generic Application Error JSP" before it gave up. > > > I was able to get the braille back when I loaded a different page. > > Pele West > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/vaughan.dodd001%40msd.govt.nz. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > ------------------------------- > This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential > and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, any > use, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this email and attachments > is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the > author immediately and erase all copies of the email and attachments. The > Ministry of Social Development accepts no responsibility for changes made to > this message or attachments after transmission from the Ministry. > > ------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/trailerdavid%40hotmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > . > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
