[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on very portable devices

[Jason White]

What are others on this list using when a highly portable braille solution is
required? The direction I have in mind would involve a braille display with a
braille keyboard, connected by Bluetooth (or, if necessary, USB) to a small
device such as a phone or tablet-style system, of which there are many on the
market nowadays.

A Linux environment on the device, with BRLTTY, would be ideal. The only
obvious disadvantage is that contracted braille input is not supported by
BRLTTY, which would be difficult in any case since the input presumably has to
be buffered until it becomes unambiguous (that is, until there isn't any
longer string that could match a different contraction table entry).

For a portable device smaller than a laptop, quick suspend/resume would be
needed.

At the moment, this is all hypothetical for me as my braille display doesn't
include a braille keyboard. It works wonderfully with a laptop, but there are
situations in which one doesn't want to carry a laptop around and then find a
convenient place to connect the devices up.

Interestingly, the new BrailleBack access software for Android uses BRLTTY
internally and I expect it will start attracting users as devices with Android
4.1 emerge on the consumer market.