Have you run brltty yet? That's usually what enables braille in linux and I hope someone using your display responds since they may provide specific switches to use to get your display running.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello, I just wanted to let everyone know what I finally decided regarding my > choice of distribution. I decided on Fedora Linux, this is because this is > what I originally learned some of my hopefully not Q ancient knowledge in > terms of using Linux. > > I wanted to briefly take a moment and explain how I got this done. I used a > remote visual interpretation service named Aira to read all of the visual > information that comes on the screen when installing clinics, into a virtual > machine. The good news is the agent even stuck around to assist in installing > and configuring orca. The only thing I now need to do is figure out how to > enable braille access. I'm kind of beginning to think it might be easier to > attempt to install braille TTY? This is because I don't think orca has any > type of really usable braille driver for my particular display. I of course > could be wrong. I am currently using a Brailliant BI 40 X. I can also use the > 20 cell version. But the 20 cell version has one additional issue that might > cause more problems than could be solved in Linux. This device has an actual > physical hard drive like appearance in both Mac OS and Windows. I don't know > just how Fedora might identify it as? Any thoughts? > > Finally, I know some are wondering why is this message being generated in > Outlook. Especially in time and Windows. This is because the dictation > software that I am using only runs in Windows. If I had to write this by hand > I think the amount of mistakes and syntax errors etc. would make anything > that I write by hand probably unreadable. I have 1/3 disability in addition > to being DeafBlind. I have a written expression disorder. Which forces me to > use dictation software. So if there's something that I've written in the text > of this message, that doesn't make sense please reach out to me and asked me > what did I really intend to say? Here is hoping all are having a good Monday? > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
