call for braille device testing

[Mike Pedersen]

Hello Henrik, the problems I reported a couple weeks ago still exist.  
1.  When I boot feisty with my USB braille display connected brltty still
attempts to start twice initially giving an error which I have to press any
key on the display to dismiss.  
2.  Orca is still not able to connect to brlapi and display braille.  
As both of these issues are already documented in bugs filed against feisty
I won't bother with more details here but I just wanted to let you know that
at least in my environments braille is still not in a particularly useful
state.  
Mike 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com 
> [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On 
> Behalf Of Henrik Nilsen Omma
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 4:54 AM
> To: Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: call for braille device testing
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We have recently implemented the braille-support spec i 
> Feisty which aims to provide default support for USB braille 
> devices and relatively simple configuration of serial and 
> bluetooth devices.
> 
> If you have a USB device is should just come up working on a 
> Live CD or installed Feisty system (provided a screen reader 
> is active to feed it text). If you boot the Live CD with F5+4 
> you will get a braille configuration script for usb, serial 
> or bluetooth devices (this needs documentation to be useful). 
> The script can be run from a terminal too with 
> 'brltty-setup'. Expect a few changes in this script soon as well.
> 
> So, if you have a braille device, please help us test! Many 
> of the people who have contributed to this don't have access 
> to braille displays so we need input from others. Please be 
> patient with the process, we a expect a fair number of things 
> to not work at the start. 
> We will make updated scripts available and it would be great 
> if people could test those before we put it on the CD.
> 
> See spec: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/BrailleSupport
> 
> Henrik
> 
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