| PackageDescription | Access software for a blind person using a braille display
BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
display and provides complete screen review functionality.
The following display models are supported:
* Alva/Optelec (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680)
* Baum
* BrailComm
* BrailleLite
* BrailleNote
* Cebra
* EcoBraille
* EuroBraille (AzerBraille, Clio, Esys, Iris, NoteBraille, Scriba)
* Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
* Handy Tech
* HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille)
* HumanWare (Brailliant)
* Iris
* LogText 32
* MDV
* Metec (BD-40)
* NinePoint
* Papenmeier
* Pegasus
* Seika
* Tieman (Voyager, CombiBraille, MiniBraille, MultiBraille,
BraillePen/EasyLink)
* Tivomatic (Albatross)
* TSI (Navigator, PowerBraille)
* VideoBraille
* VisioBraille
.
BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications
wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for incoming
TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library for clients is
provided in the package libbrlapi0.6. A static library, header files and
documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other
programming languages can be found in cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java)
and python-brlapi (Python). |