[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2025/04/03 at 11:01 +0300]

>Especially I'd like to hear from those who actually maintain or contribute to
>BRLTTY, because your opinion will be in central role, if some improvements
>require changes to BRLTTY as well.

I don't have your original post on this topic anymore, but here are my responses to this message:

I'm not a GUI user (like, at all) so, without a huge learning curve, can't do much to help improve it. Nevertheless, I'd like to see support for the GUI environment improved as much as possible as my position is that a braille user should be free to use whichever environment he prefers with as little hinderance as possible.

I'd like to see our AtSpi2 screen driver enhanced, as much as can be, so that we can be as standalone and in control as possible with respect to the GUI environment.

>Changes to BRLTTY could for example be new screen drivers, support for other
>types of user interface than just terminals (kind of like how BRLTTY already
>supports GUI on Android), more functionality to BrlAPI, etc.

I already have a keyboard table designed to make using Mate and Orca much easier from a braille keyboard. I've been planning to integrate it one of these days, especially since brltty-6.7 contains fixes to make GUI keyboard input work properly.

> > More important question of course is, is there something we can do about it.

There's always something we can do.

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