[BRLTTY] brltty in termux on ipad?

[Jason J.G. White]

Sébastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinderer at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>Coming to what Nicolas says about braille devices running Linux, I 
>think
>that this is the case e.g. for Eurobraille's last device whose name I
>can't remember right now. Linux also seems popular among portable
>digital book players, as I am sure Nicolas knows. ;-)
>

There are also the new braille devices from Blazie Technologies, which I 
expect run Linux. (Their predecessor, the BT Speak, does, with Orca as 
the screen reader and a full desktop environment available to the user, 
according to what I've read.)

The forthcoming BrailleNote Evolve products from HumanWare run Microsoft 
Windows. It might be possible to install Linux on those, assuming that 
details can be obtained of how to access the braille display hardware so 
that a BRLTTY driver can be written for it.

>But it seems that nowadays Android has become a serious concurrent for
>Linux in that field. Maybe one way out would be to look into Linux-based
>phones?

EuroBraille's latest products run Windows. Now HumanWare is moving in 
the same direction. The braille laptop project announced by Orbit 
Research would also run Windows. At this point, only Blazie Technologies 
has Linux-based braille products providing full access to the desktop, 
as far as I know.

The trend is clear, though: there's a shift among manufacturers away 
from Android, at least for the more capable braille products, and toward 
desktop operating systems.

It isn't clear whether any of this opens opportunities for Linux and 
BRLTTY. I think that depends on whether the interfaces to the hardware 
are kept proprietary on the Windows-based devices.