[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Sébastien Hinderer]

kperry at blinksoft.com (2025/05/06 08:01 -0400):
> Well more a Braille framework rather than a goal. It could be based on
> BRLTTY but it is hard to create the same kind of access since the BRLTTY has
> a one to one corispondence to a console based app.  GUI's have objects and
> they can be anything.  It doesn't map one to one and will probably take more
> thought to get right than any know.

One building block that I have already discussed with a few other
persons here is a braille toolkit that defines how to display widgets in
braille.

> The reason Jaws and NVDA are the way
> they are is because they have come as close as any have been willing to
> define a true Braille interface.

I am not sure I understand you properly here, but if you are saying that
what NDVA produces in terms of braille is good, I for myself remain
unconvinced. I have no experience with Jaws but my impression regarding
NDVA is that it is a speech-sysnthesis centered screen reader where
braille is treated more as a complement to the speech synthesis than a
first class citizen. To me, even the word "screen *reader*" suggests
what I'd call a bias towards speech sysnthesis.