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

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Fri May 9 16:32:36 UTC 2025


[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/05/09 at 13:43 +0200]

>I tried specifying nothing and I got a 135 lines per 480 column screen
>which was actually not usable, for reasons I am not able to explain.

Brltty is working with a kernel interface that imposes a limit of 255 on both the line and column counts, so it's the 480 columns that'd have been causing you problems.

By the way: I use 240x67, which seemed to have been okay for sighted people whenever I had a monitor connected.

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