[BRLTTY] brltty in termux on ipad?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/12/26 at 19:32 +0100]

>I certainly agree that one must bevery strongly motivated to
>developforiOS. 

My motivation to do development isn't a problem. When it comes to iOS, though, I have at least two questions:

Apple alread provides braille through VoiceOver. Is that inadequate in some way that brltty could improve upon?

Especially now that I no longer have a professional income, I'm in no hurry to spend a great deal of money on a device that I dno't need and wouldn't use other than for development.

On top of that, to ensure that brltty is really working properly everywhere it needs to I'd have to purchase some sort of mobile plan so that phone calls, etc would work.

>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.

Okay, it's coming back to me. If I'm recalling correctly, they're setting what Android calls the content description with the text that's on the screen. This would enable you to know what's on the screen but wouldn't have a cursor.

So, if my memory is correct, it's termux that's broken and there isn't anything we can to do address the issue.

What's their excuse for not doing it properly? Just a guess, but they probably simply want some fancy-looking font. :-(

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