Braille Essentials
Par josephsl
This add-on provides essential features for NVDA users relying on braille support. The following features, deriving from Braille Extender, are available:
- Reload two favorite braille display with shortcuts.
- Automatic review cursor tethering in terminal role like in PuTTY, Powershell, bash, cmd.
- Auto scroll.
- Switch between several input/output braille tables.
- Mark the text with special attributes through dot 7, dot 8 or both.
- Use two output braille tables simultaneously.
- Display tab signs as spaces.
- Reverse forward scroll and back scroll buttons.
- Say the current line during text scrolling either in review mode, or in focus mode or both.
- Translate text easily in Unicode braille and vice versa. E.g.: z <--> ⠵.
- Convert cell description to Unicode braille and vice versa. E.g.: 123 <--> ⠇.
- Lock braille keyboard.
- Launch an application/URL with gesture.
- Braille dictionaries.
- Type with one-hand from braille keyboard.
- Display undefined characters from braille tables (including emojis) using altenative representations.
- Enter any character from braille keyboard (including emojis).
- Skip blank lines during text scrolling.
- Speech History Mode.
And much more.
For some braille displays, it extends the braille display commands to provide:
- Offer complete gesture maps including function keys, multimedia keys, quick navigation, etc.
- Emulate modifier keys, and thus any keyboard shortcut
- Offer several keyboard configurations concerning the possibility to input dots 7 and 8, enter and backspace
- Add actions and quick navigation through a rotor
Téléchargements disponibles
Autres détails
- Compatibilité NVDA : de 2025.3.3 à 2026.1
- Proposé dans l'add-on store : le 16/05/2026 à 18:04
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- Code source
- Licence : GPL v2