Re: properties for exposing custom Braille descriptions

Do we know if all the braille libraries used by the platforms support
Unicode block?

On 2/7/19 8:57 AM, White, Jason J wrote:
> Braille ASCII varies between countries, hence between the braille tables
> loaded by screen readers – so it can’t be used to specify a desired
> braille representation reliably.
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> For example, if the author assumes North American ASCII braille, but the
> user’s system is configured for one of the European codes, the result
> won’t be what the author would expect.
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> Only the Unicode block is unambiguous.
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> *From: *Peter Krautzberger <peter@krautzource.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 08:43
> *To: *"White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>
> *Cc: *"public-aria@w3.org" <public-aria@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Re: properties for exposing custom Braille descriptions
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> Hi Jason,
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> This question is mentiond in the list of questions at the end of the
> page. My apologies if the page was not accessible enough to make it there.
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> Speaking for myself, I'd very much hope that Unicode Braille would work.
> But Braille ascii might be a useful consideration. As I understand it,
> NVDA's prototype back in May pushed the raw value out (and Sina's test
> files used grade 1).
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> Best regards,
> 
> Peter.
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