[BRLTTY] brltty in termux on ipad?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/12/26 at 17:58 +0100]

>I think as far as Termux is concerned, the kind of hardwareor OS it is
>running on is maybe not the first thing to understand.

It shouldn't be except that brltty for iOS isn't a thing. I myself am not interested in spending more than a thousand dollars to get an iPhone in order to work on it. And then, of course, Apple also charges some ridiculous amount for a developer to do any develoment work.

>So basically, at least for what I understand, the big thing is to write
>a Termux screen driver. Well on Android, it seems the regular Android
>screen driver already works to some extent, at least it did, except that
>it was not able to figure out where the cursor was. 

On Android, brltty lookos at the screen through Android's accessibility framework. As long as termux is playing fair, it should work. If it isn't then my first guess is that it isn't using a text view.

Another possibility would be that it might be showing where the cursor is with visual highlighting rather than by rendering the actual cursor.

>And this is were
>some cooperation from Termux would be needed and according to the issue
>I referred to, and on which you yourself commented, Dave, it seemed lie
>a non-trivial job.

I kind of remember a discussion on this. Maybe it was a while ago. Anyway, I no longer remember the specifics so would have to try it again.

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