Re: On Braille and Linux

To: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Cc: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, Debian Accessibility Team <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: On Braille and Linux
From: Frank Carmickle <frank@carmickle.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 09:36:53 -0400
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> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a ecrit:
>> Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native Linux touch interface that is accessible, or did I totally miss something?
> 
> Touch screens do work on Linux, they show up as a mouse.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was talking about having a set of multitouch gestures for a window manager that allow for visually impaired folk to navigate the UI. Especially important would be the swipe to element navigation method.

Is the window manager the right place for such a driver? 

--FC

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