[BRLTTY] brltty in termux on ipad?

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dave Mielke (2025/12/26 12:38 -0500):
> [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.

I certainly agree that one must bevery strongly motivated to
developforiOS. And this is not even mentionning how more difficult it is
whenyou are visually impaired and (as far as I know) cannot use XCode
that comfortably. I must be missing something obvious but I never
understood why Apple makesit so hard forpeople to develop for their
platform. My intuition wouldhave been to do exactly theopposite.

> >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.

That point had been discussed on the issue. TheTermux people indeed said
that they were notusing Android's text view and were drawing everything
by themselves. Taht was a surprise to me because, on the one side they
certainly know what they are talking about, but on the other side I was
able to see something, and I don't know how that owould have been
possible at all if they were not using the textview at all.

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

I could ask sighted termux users, if we do not manage to figure out
through another way.


>
> >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.

If you have the bandwidth to, I would be extremely gratefulbecause that
is something I'd love to use and I don' think I myself have the skills
to work on that.