[BRLTTY] FreedomBox and braille

[Matt Campbell]

Hello all,

While I'm not yet ready to work on braille support in FreedomBox, I 
thought I'd post amessage about it here, since the topic has come up 
recently.

First of all, I don't have a braille display, so unless I can get one, I 
suppose that's going to make development more difficult.  Does BRLTTY 
offer anything that would help me test braille support without having a 
braille display?  Though I'm partially sighted and don't normally use 
braille, I do know grade 1 and some grade 2, so reading the braille 
output won't be an issue.  Still, a user interface that uses braille 
output is new territory for me; developing one will be a learning 
experience.

As for Windows, the two possible back-ends I'm considering are BRLTTY 
and libbraille.  Does BRLTTY for Windows require Cygwin?  Do any newer 
braille displays support automatic detection, or will the user always 
need to choose a display from the list and specify the serial port to 
which the display is connected?

That's all I have for now.  Thanks for any help you can provide.

-- 
Matt Campbell
Lead Programmer
Serotek Corporation
www.freedombox.info