Braille attributes: add the possibility to make the dots 7 and/or 8 blink

[aaclause]

Reported by direct email to me:

Some members of NVDA international and I were playing with the idea of making discernible multiple characteristics of letters or symbols such as italics, boldface, underlined. We are wondering whether it might be possible to have dot 8 blink in varied intervals. I saw that your add-on already offers dot combinations for italics and boldface.
However, when you have texts containing more than two such characteristics,
then using dots 7 or 7+8 alone will not facilitate correctly identifying all
the various characteristics. I suggested dot 8 to blink at rates of varied
length because dot 7 is most often reserved for indicating capital letters.
Or maybe you could let the user “combine” his or her personal preferences as to which dot he/she wants to blink.

[zstanecic]

Good proposal. I am waiting to test this, especially in MS word. I would like also the emulation of the jaws centering and right alignment, and the formatting of paragraphs to be highlighted somehow From: André-Abush Clause <notifications@github.com> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 6:03 AM To: Andre9642/BrailleExtender <BrailleExtender@noreply.github.com> Cc: Subscribed <subscribed@noreply.github.com> Subject: [Andre9642/BrailleExtender] Braille attributes: add the possibility to make the dots 7 and/or 8 blink (#42) Reported by direct email to me: Some members of NVDA international and I were playing with the idea of making discernible multiple characteristics of letters or symbols such as italics, boldface, underlined. We are wondering whether it might be possible to have dot 8 blink in varied intervals. I saw that your add-on already offers dot combinations for italics and boldface. However, when you have texts containing more than two such characteristics, then using dots 7 or 7+8 alone will not facilitate correctly identifying all the various characteristics. I suggested dot 8 to blink at rates of varied length because dot 7 is most often reserved for indicating capital letters. Or maybe you could let the user “combine” his or her personal preferences as to which dot he/she wants to blink. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#42> , or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACVCDE7KS23EBPYE7JT4JILQYRSIZANCNFSM4J2YXL6A> . <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/ACVCDEZHOYAIMVQ7556JJQLQYRSIZA5CNFSM4J2YXL6KYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFUVEXG43VMWVGG33NNVSW45C7NFSM4IAPGV7A.gif>

[gregjozk]

Hello,

another solution could be borrowed from JAWS, which introduced 2 modes (character and atribute) for me it was very useful.

[aaclause]

Hi @gregjozk,
Thanks for this suggestion! Could you open another issue and detail the solution? In particular if a portion of text has multiple attributes. Sorry, I haven't used JAWS for years.