My Alva braille controller seems to drop out at will. I thought it was a
problem with the display, since it has been a pain from day one. I didn't
know this happened with others. That's a bummer! Pam.
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From: David via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 4:20 PM
To: Vaughan Dodd ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Braille Display Not Working
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.
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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
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