Hi, I have some wishes for improvements that would make it easier to use JFW only with braille output. The most important issue is the ability to get JFW messages shown on the braille display. As JFW works now you have to use the speech box mode to have this braille output, but the speech box mode is only good for this reason, in almost all other situations the structured mode is better. A really good work around for this could be a possibility to have JFW messages shown in braille when they are spokne, and to specify a period of time the JFW message should be shown in braille. If the time is set to 10 seconds, the output from e.g. the insert+t script would be on the braille display 10 seconds and then the display would change to the text shown before the insert+t script was issued. If this can be done the braille user can get the same extra information that speech users get from JFW. The lack of braille output from JFW messages makes simple operations like identifying text attributes a hard task to perform. If speech is used you just perform the insert+f script, this will report font, size and attributes for the character the active cursor is on. In braille you have 2 ways of getting this information. You can configure JFW to show either one type like underlined text, or the 6 types JFW recognizes. If you set JFW to show all 6 types, the marking is the same dots 7 and 8 for all 6 types. The only way the braille user can distinguish among the 6 types is to change the braille display to graphics mode. In this mode only the attributes are shown with different letters. So to check attributes for the text on the braille display you must toggle to graphics mode and back again when you have looked at the letters or the blank display if the text has no attributes. For the user with both braille and speech output this is not a problem, you can always perform th! e insert+f script. One way to improve this in braille could be to allow the user to determine the braille pattern for each type of marking. E.G. using dot 7 alone to mark underlined and dot 8 alone to mark another attribute. It will not be possible to get 6 different braille patterns but the user could be able to destinguish among 3 types and still only use dots 7 and 8 for marking. Regards Claus Th�gersen - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
