[nvda] Re: Braille support

James:
Not sure about how it behaves over USB, but it does support actual serial
communication as well as USB. In addition, I have a bunch of not-so-public
specs on how to write to the display and read the various buttons from it.
Would that be of any use?

--JAM

At 07:47 AM 5/29/2009 +1000, you wrote:
>On 29/05/2009 4:29 AM, Joshua A. Miele wrote:
>> I'm relatively new to NVDA and am trying to set it up on a new vista
>> machine with an ALVA Satellite. I read through all the documentation on
>> using brltty, but got kind of intimidated given the spottyness of the
>> various manuals. I also wasn't convinced that brltty will work with Vista.
>Does the ALVA Satellite provide a virtual (emulated) serial port? If I 
>remember correctly, it doesn't, which will present a challenge if using 
>it under Vista in conjunction with other screen readers on the same 
>system. I'd like a better way to support the ALVA Satellite, but we need 
>a lot more information than we have.
>
>-- 
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