[BRLTTY] New HID USB standard for braille displays?

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu May 31 12:41:31 EDT 2018


Jason White, le jeu. 31 mai 2018 12:05:27 -0400, a ecrit:
> Does anyone on this list have further details of the following?
> https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/31/17413178/apple-microsoft-google-usb-universal-standard-braille-displays

I don't know.

> Is BRLTTY expected to support it?

The current version won't support it, but it's then a matter of
implementing the support.

> It isn't clear to me what is standardized, as the features of displays differ,
> making it hard to create a common protocol.

That's what I fear: they'll either take the common denominator, which
means reducing the available features, or they'll take the union of
features, which means a complex standard.

Samuel


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