PC keyboard braille input support
Hello,
One thing that has went a bit unnoticed is the possibility to type text
using the PC keyboard as if it was a braille keyboard. To achieve that,
simply uncomment
key-table keypad
from your /etc/brltty.conf, and restart brltty. One can then switch to
braille by pressing insert+asterisk on the numpad, and switch back to
normal by pressing insert+slash on the numpad. The default is to use the
asdfjkl, keys as braille keys, but /etc/brltty/kbd-braille.kti can be
modified to use other keys.
This also works in X, you just need to start xbrlapi to get proper
keyboard mapping. More details in http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
Samuel
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