[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2025/05/07 at 12:23 +0300]

> > I think the set of commands could be enriched as much as desired. I can
> > even imagine a notion of context which would allow to bind a key to
> > differnet commands.
>
>I have also thought about this, and I'd like this to happen.

It has already been done for Android support. The key tables can even have conditional segments based on the platform that brltty is currently running on.

> > Also, the only thing you have to do if you do not
> > want BRLTTY commands is to ask for key codes whenyou enter in tty mode.
>
>Yes, but BRLTTY already provides a lot of machinery to handle driver-specific
>key codes and reimplementing this logic to every BrlAAPI application that
>requires a different command set form BRLTTY is tedious, errorprone and wasted
>time.

Also, putting the burden of developing a separate key table for each and every braille device model on every BrlAPI client is, to me, a bit much. It'd also mean that having standardized bindings for common navigation functions would go by the wayside.


That isn't true. It's just that you need to know how to interpret that code,and that differs from model to model.

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