[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Samuel Thibault (2025/05/07 00:04 +0200):
> > - Multiple displays: if the user uses multiple displays (like I sometimes do),
> >   they cannot connect them all to the same BRLTTY instance. Running a second
> >   BRLTTY for the second display does not help, if the user wants to use
> >   anything that relies on BrlAPI.
> 
> I don't understand: you can already set different BrlAPI server ports
> for the different BRLTTY instances, and tell clients which one you can
> to connect to.

I think Aura meant that one instance of Orca is not (yet) able to talk
to several braille displays simultaneously. But of course, as it's
possible to run one instance of BRLTTY per connected braille device, it
should be possible to run several instances of Orca, each of them
connecting to a different BrlAPI server. I guess such a thing would
require adjutments, even more so if some automation is expected, but
even that does not look undoable with the current architecture. Not even
mentionning that, even in a different set-up that would have to be
created, achieving this would involve quite some work, too, in addition
to the work to come up with the new design.

Seb.