Hi,
I understand (having asked someone who's technically fairly
knowledgeable, a similar question) that it's very iffy. It might, or
might not, work in the case of older braille displays. Another thing is
that, they were at most 16-bit, which would work on 32-bit OS's but
certainly not on 64-bit (according to my understanding).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike O'Brien" <mike23...@verizon.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Where does Jaws store its braille display
drivers?
Hi
I don't know if this would work for Braille displays. But on my
Windows 7
machine now running JAWS 15, with no serial ports, I am using a
Dectalk
Express sybthesizer which plugs into a serial port. I bought a serial
to
USB converter and plugged the serial adaptor of the synthesizer into
one end
and the other end into a USB port on the machine. I bought the
adaptor on
Amazon. The one I got is made by TrendNet. But if JAWS has actually
blocked serial Braille displays, the block would most likely be
somewhere
outside of the driver itself. You could ask FS if what you want to do
is
possible and why they blocked them after JAWS 11.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com]
On
Behalf Of Rylan Vroom
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 04:07
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Where does Jaws store its braille display
drivers?
Hey folks, I'm looking into grabbing an old TSI navigator
because its the cheapest way for me to get my hands on an 80 character
braille display. I've been doing some research and discovered that the
navigator uses the Power Braille communications protocol and should,
therefore work with jaws's powerbraille driver. I then discovered that
FS
has disabled use of the powerbraille displays through a serial port as
of
jaws version 11. The navigator doesn't have a parallel port and
neither do
any of my computers. Anyone know if its possible to hack out the PB
driver
from jaws 11 and put it to work with jaws 14?
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