[BRLTTY] brltty "keyboard braille device" support (and a few more things)

[Klaus Knopper]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:19:18AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Jason White on 2007/01/25 at 16:38 +1100]
> 
> >A question of motivation: why would you want to accept keyboard commands when
> >the braille display is not connected? Is it to change the configuration before
> >re-connecting?
> 
> There has long been a desire by some to have brltty provide reasonable, simple,
> speech-based screen navigation. While I'm not in favour of making brltty be the
> world's best speech-based screen reader, the fact is that it already does
> provide some speech functions. To me, it makes sense to improve this capability
> if it can be done in an easy and non-intrusive way.
> 
> The next logical step is to allow speech-based navigation when the braille
> display isn't connected. That, of course, would require keyboard-based
> commands. This, too, is now very easy to do give the asynchronous event
> facility which brltty now has and the uinput facility which the kernel now has. 

Exactly. I'm also thinking about people in lesser-industrial countries
who simply have no way of afforing a braille device. I would like to add
speech and keyboard navigation capabiliies to a special Knoppix
derivate, that makes it possible for a blind person to use ANY computer
with no special hardware add-on other than a soundcard, by just
inserting a live CD.

The project description is here:
http://knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html

With kind regards
-Klaus Knopper