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

[Samuel Thibault]

Nicolas Pitre, le dim. 11 mai 2025 14:05:42 -0400, a ecrit:
> On Sat, 10 May 2025, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > That'd be *way* cleaner than extending vcsa.
> 
> And how would you go about for making it "cleaner" ?
> I'm not talking about just the header here -- that's simple enough.

Ok.

> It is the rest of the content that requires careful planning. What do 
> you want in it, represented how, and obtained where? Those are questions 
> people tend to forget.

Ah, you mean for the attributes? We can use a 32bit value and define the
flags that are already in /dev/vcsa, and leave the rest for further
extension.

My point is: there is no point in extending /dev/vcsu in a complex way,
better merely introduce a new /dev/vcsua with a new format.

Samuel