[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Devin Prater]

I think we could do much better than JAWS on Windows with a purely 
Braille solution. BRLTTY for Android has great use of Braille symbols 
for stuff like checkboxes. I hope that, since we could grab all 
information from Linux screens, Braille formatting like headings, bold, 
italics and such could be more truly displayed using BRLTTY. And, 
especially if we could type in contracted Braille, I'd really enjoy 
using it.

On 4/3/25 5:18 AM, Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:
> Hi,
> My opinion:
> I am perfectly happy with brltty as it is now. Adding bells and whistle
> hahas the risc of making thing complicated and slow and difficult to
> maintain. If you want more funcionality go to Windows and buy Jaws.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:01:04AM +0300, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> On 2025-04-01 at 12:46 +0300, Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev at sange.fi> wrote:
>>   > I'd like to ask now, what do you people think? Do you agree with me that the
>>   > above mentioned things are issues and that we would benefit from things
>>   > getting fixed?
>>
>> I am still missing opinions about the things I wrote in my original message.
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>   > More important question of course is, is there something we can do about it.
>>
>> Are there people on the list who would like to put their effort into this?
>>
>> One possible task could be reaching out to developers of desktop screen readers,
>> AT-SPI and possibly Wayland.
>>
>> But I also believe that we would need to have a clearer vision about what we
>> want to achieve, if anything. So please anyone if you have any (possibly
>> radical) ideas about how the accessibility infrastructure (for braille users)
>> could be improved, don't hesitate to show up.
>>
>> -- 
>> Aura
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> 

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Devin Prater