[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Samuel Thibault]

Sébastien Hinderer, le lun. 14 avril 2025 08:26:50 +0200, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault (2025/04/13 20:32 +0200):
> > Yes, see the console-braille package.
> 
> One thing that owuld IMO make thisi package amazingly useful to blind
> people owuld be if there is a way to get the typed braille translated
> back to letters etc.
> I can imagine that in theory this must be possible, as BRLTTY does know
> how to translate braille combinations into text, but concretely, is
> there a way to make all this work together?

That would require making brltty snoop the key presses to perform the
translation and simulate the corresponding letter keypresses. For that
it does not need the console-braille keyboard support, it can already do
this through its linux console key snooping support :)

Samuel