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

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/05/09 at 19:16 +0200]

>I am a bit surprised that the vcsa interface was not designed to
>represent screens that actually can be displayed, but I guess it's jsut
>that the two date from different times.

Yes. The original vcs interface was designed a very long time ago when such large screens weren't envisioned and 255 seemed plenty adequate.

>If we wanted to change the vcsa, I assume that would create backward
>compatibility issues and it would thus be better to introduce a new
>interface?

The vcsua devices don't exist yet so, in my opinion, that'd be how to do it.

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