[nvda] Re: BRLTTY and NVDA

On 29.10.2008 at 17:45:51 "Simon Eigeldinger" <simon.eigeldinger@xxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately NVDA seems to not have a german braille table which has 
> computer braille (8 dot) support and brltty is not allowed to use its 
> own table because NVDA seems to block it.
> Why does NVDA use different tables than brltty? wouldn't it be better 
> to use brlttys tables instead using other tables?
>
This would require that brltty is the only braille interface of
NVDA. But there were additional drivers (HT and FS), and which braile
tables should they use?

> Some info for people which use other screenreaders like jaws:
> When you have closed jaws you have to restart the brlapi service 
> because jaws seems to have the primary right to use the braille 
> device.
>
I cannot confirm this. On my desktop machine braille works, and there's
no need to restart brlapi after having closed Jaws.
Hermann
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