[BRLTTY] Help for a Friend

[Kelly Prescott]

I live in Mattoon, about 3 hours from Chicago.
I use Linux with brltty.
In fact, I am one of the maintainers of the TalkingArch distribution.
The powerbraille should work with Linux.  I do not have one, but I used to 
a long time ago, and I did use it at that time.
If he wants a windowing environment, Orca works with brltty as well.
Orca is a screen reader.
If he just wants a basic command-line, we can do that as well.

my contact is kprescott at coolip.net or cell: 217.254.2407
I consult, so am available on a fairly flexable basis.




On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, wmichaelb at fuse.net wrote:

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> Hi: I have been providing some tech help for a blind friend, although I'm sighted myself.
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> Andre has for twenty years run a DOS system using the Powerbraille80 display. He 
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> has now found himself running out of dial-up options, and needs to move on to something
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> with a standard ethernet connection to a fiber modem.
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> He and I and a third friend with some IT experience have been trying to get him connected,
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> but have had no luck with various DOS programs and NIC hardware. Right now, he has
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> some connectivity with a Windows 7 machine running a trial copy of Dolphin. We have
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> tried brltty on that Windows machine, but were unable to get it to work. I'm a long time
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> Linux user, and would frankly love to get him on that platform.
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> This leads us to three questions:
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> 1.) Are there any brltty users in the Chicago area, or for that matter, somewhere in the US
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> that Andre might call by phone to chat with about their experience?
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> 2.) Does brltty have screen reading capability, or is it primarily a braille display driver that needs other
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> software for the reading function?
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> 3.) Do we need an additional driver for the Powerbraille80 display, or ??
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> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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