Re: properties for exposing custom Braille descriptions

Besides Apple, I think everyone is using liblouis at this point for translation. I don't know what Apple's Mac OS and iOS implementations use. I think it would be reasonable to expect everyone to support the Unicode code points for braille rendering.

On 2/7/19, 09:04, "Joanmarie Diggs" <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:

    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.
    >
    >
    >
    > 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.
    >
    >
    >
    > Only the Unicode block is unambiguous.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > *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
    >
    >
    >
    > Hi Jason,
    >
    >
    >
    > 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.
    >
    >
    >
    > 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).
    >
    >
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > Peter.
    >
    >
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