[BRLTTY] brltty in termux on ipad?

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2025, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre (2025/12/27 12:55 -0500):
> > For a much Linux-like experience on iOS I recommend iSH instead. It is
> > also fairly VoiceOver friendly.
> 
> And do you use itwish speech only, or also with VoiceOver's braille
> support?

Never tested it with braille. In fact I very rarely use VoiceOver with 
braille.

> Actually, as far as I am concerned, the thing that I'd like is the
> ability to run Emacs on iOS and the ability to use it in braille as
> comfortably as I do with BRLTTY on Linux. Do you see any reasonable way
> to achieve this?

Unfortunately, no.

> Perhaps a mode of BRLTTY where it would embed its own terminal
> could help? Of course, that would mean that one may wnat to also deal
> with displaying the terminal on the phone's screen, but in a way that
> wouldnot have to be a priorityeither and could even be seen as an
> advantage if you have on one side the active app that you handle
> withVoiceOver and on the other side your system that you handle
> with BRLTTY.

BRLTTY can already run its own built-in terminal. And that'd would work 
with iSH. The part that won't work is the actual access to the braille 
device.

> In case that wouldn'tbe possibleon iOS, I might consider having a second
> portable device just for that, as I really feel something ismissing in
> my organization in that I cannot easily read and editmy Org files. By
> not easily I mean without using both my laptop andbraille device. 

I'm pretty sure Some braille devices are running Linux internally. 
But manufacturers won't tell you of course.

My main "portable" setup currently consists of a Raspberry Pi 500.
It is smaller / lighter / cheaper than a laptop. But you still have to
carry several parts.