[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hi,

On 2025-04-03 at 05:24 -0400, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
 > 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.

How would you feel about adding support for non-terminal widgets into BRLTTY?

The AT-Spi2 screen driver already supports them to some extent, but it does
not support navigating between them, nor does it have special handling for
different widget types.

This would be kind of like in Android.

I wonder whether other types of widgets than terminals would be best handled
by a dedicated screen reader that would communicate with the braille display
using BrlAPI. BRLTTY is best in handling terminals, and it could do that and
leave other widgets/interfaces for another tool. Of course there would be
plenty of possibilities for code sharing, and maybe the BrlAPI server would be
the right place for such shared code.

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Aura