Hi,
I think what we (you and others) could do would be to ask Orca
developers (or others who use Linux) to write to HumanWare to get
the required protocol documentation so that Linux support can be
achieved. Same goes to Apple and GW Micro - if only if Apple
users could write to Apple Accessibility and to Window-Eyes dev
team (and possibly NVDA).
Cheers,
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]
To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of
BRLTTY."<[email protected]
Date sent: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:47:40 +0100
Subject: [Braillenote] The BrailleNote Apex QT Debacle
One of HumanWare's engineers finally made an appearance of
HumanWare's mailing list, stating for the record what we had
hitherto only suspected: that they buggered up with the latest
KeySoft release, breaking protocol compatibility for QT users,
and that a patch would introduce a toggle for either the old or
new protocol. The old protocol would be compatible with brltty;
the new, until we have documentation, would not. The old
protocol uses home-row input; the new does not, doing QT (QWERTY)
pass-through.
For various reasons, I'm exchanging (for a fee, naturally) my QT
for a BT keyboard. I feel the QT model to have been, shall we
say, less well gifted than the BT, culminating in a breakdown
that rendered my unit mostly unusable. However, it would
probably benefit brltty hugely to have this QT input support, and
if ever I get my hands on the protocol specification, I'll be
sure to share.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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