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Possibility of intercepting BRLTTY macros to be used by NVDA #2817

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nvaccessAuto opened this issue Nov 21, 2012 · 4 comments
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Possibility of intercepting BRLTTY macros to be used by NVDA #2817

nvaccessAuto opened this issue Nov 21, 2012 · 4 comments
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Reported by nvdakor on 2012-11-21 10:48
Hi,
Using NVDA 2012.3 with BrailleNote Apex as a braille display via BRLTTY.
When I start input help mode, when I press BRLTTY commands from the braille display, NVDA does announce BRLTTY commands, with the only commands that NVDA understands being braille display movement commands. So would it be possible to intercept BRLTTY macros and use them as NVDA commands while NVDA is sending braille output to the BRLTTY supported braille displays? Thanks.
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Comment 1 by nvdakor on 2012-11-21 11:00
To add to this:
In input help mode, when you press any key combinations from the braille keyboard, NVDA announces BRLTTY functions but it appears that there's no NVDA gestures associated with them. I also took a look at the NVDA source code for BRLTTY driver, and saw a comment that there might be a future task of NVDA intercepting braille keys from BRLTTY and invoke NVDA gestures. Thanks.

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Ping for @jcsteh since you have been assigned this ticket as the resident Braille expert at NV Access. Also, thoughts from @josephsl, @derekriemer, @LeonarddeR, @dkager, and others are also welcome.

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jcsteh commented Aug 14, 2017

It's certainly possible (and relatively trivial) to assign more BRLTTY commands to NVDA gestures. Most of the BRLTTY commands don't map well to NVDA's commands, which is why there is so much unassigned. It'd be great if suggestions could be provided regarding currently unassigned BRLTTY commands that it would make sense to assign by default.

As for the braille keyboard, this should be mapped using BrailleInputGesture.

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cc @josephsl

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