[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hi all,

On 2025-05-06 at 12:16 +0100, Isabel Ruffell <isabel.ruffell at talktalk.net> wrote:
 > On the other side, as in all good anarchist setups, shame and community
 > pressure are the key drivers (see: LeGuin), which may mean a multi-pronged
 > approach is needed, viz:

Le Guin has very important insights, even though I wish that we could have
Anarres with better motivators than shame and hunger. Thank you for bringing
this up!


 > It is a lot quicker and easier to use nmcli or bluetoothctl, as a
 > sight-impaired person, than grappling with menus and applets that are
 > inaccessible, but the invocations are not immediately obvious - and the
 > barrier can be reduced. [OK, I know that nmcli d wifi connect <blah> is
 > less painful, but it takes some finding out.

This actually depends on what input devices are available. Commonly we have a
full-fledged keyboard and then it is a non-issue, even using a braille
keyboard is often enough to access CLI, but (at least for me) it is much
slower. But nowadays there are also scenarios where there is no keyboard. For
example I use BRLTTY on Librem 5 phone, and if I did not have a braille
display with a braille keyboard, I would be in trouble.

I think that BDUIs (Braille-display oriented user interfaces) are worth
designing, even though this discussion might be off-topic for BRLTTY.

-- 
Aura