[NFBCS] Jumping braille display in terminal emulation

[dan.tevelde at comcast.net]

Hi Tracy,

I was a mainframe programmer for 26 years and used JAWS with various Braille
displays. I can confirm what you reported. I have also seen instances where
JAWS ignored indentation. Don't expect any help from Freedom Scientific they
tried claiming that because the scripts were written by someone else Freedom
Scientific wasn't responsible for supporting them. I found this bogus
considering that the scripts are installed with JAWS. Ever since I have had
a bad taste in my mouth about Freedom Scientific and things have gotten
worse when I dealt with Braille hardware repairs.

If you can provide me more information, I will try and help. What version of
the mainframe operating system are you using? Which emulator and version?
What screenreaders and Braille displays are you using? How are you entering
text from the Braille display or a QWERTY keyboard? I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via NFBCS
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 8:22 AM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Subject: [NFBCS] Jumping braille display in terminal emulation

I'm editing a program within my terminal emulator, and, when I start typing
on a line, my braille display starts flipping quickly back and forth, too
quick to read or route the cursor.  It's quite distracting, and it makes it
hard to check where I am if I want to skip over a bunch of spaces to the
next spot I want on the line. 

I'm using the same emulator I've been using, but I'm in a different
mainframe than the one I know and love.  

It might be a TSO setting, but I'm not sure.  Any ideas?  Any more old
rascals like me, still programming on the mainframe?

Tracy

 

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