[BRLTTY] Version 3.7 and text application developers
Andor Demarteau
andor at nl.linux.org
Thu Aug 4 10:19:33 EDT 2005
generally I'd say post it on /. and newsforge
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the coming 3.7 version also comes the AtSpi screen driver. One
> really good point with this is that developers of text applications now
> have a very easy way to check by themselves how much their applications
> are readable by brltty (and such tty reader in general): they just need
> to install the libxaw-dev and at-spi-dev packages, compile brltty,
> install it (as root or as user), run brltty -b xw -x as, and run their
> applications in gnome-terminal, the reading shows up in the brltty
> window.
>
> This should get documented somewhere and very well advertised, but
> where? I'd say that brltty's README files are not sufficient for this,
> since developers can't divine that they should checkout brltty and read
> documentation. A simple tutorial webpage whose URL being announced on
> popular news sites could be enough, though.
>
> What are people's opinion about this?
>
> Regards,
> Samuel
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