[nvda] Re: Braille support
- From: "Joshua A. Miele" <jam@xxxxxxx>
- To: nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:31:04 -0700
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.
>
>--
>James Teh
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