[BRLTTY] Clickable links, virtual consoles etc. (Was Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux)

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hello Chevelle,

Yes what you wrote makes sense, thanks a lot!

I was wondering: would it make sense for BRLTTY to have a mode in which
it follows the mouse pointer rather than following the cursor?

One way I imagine it would be that, in this mode, dots 78 would
represent a position of the mouse pointer rather than the cursor.
If one presses the routing kay on a character while the mouse pointer is
already on it, that would be a left click on this character. If one
presses a routing key on a character whereas the mouse pointer is not
yet on it, that would move the mouse pointer to that character. Remains
to be found a way to simulate a right click.

To put all this in context, the purpose would be to make it possible to
click on links as sighted users do. But there may be other use-cases, I
don't know.

As far as sighted users are concerned, can they "clink on linkse" only
with the mouse, or do they have other ways to do it?

Seb.