[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Elias Oltmanns, le sam. 05 avril 2025 08:48:13 +0200, a ecrit:
> On 2025-04-03 at 21:42:18 (+0200), Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
> > My comments are inline below.
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
> > 
> >> Most of us, I believe, are using the Linux console daily. It works quite
> >> nicely for most of us, I think. There are some issues though: most
> >> importantly, sighted people generally don't use Linux console nowadays.
> >> Linux's console infrastructure is pretty much deprecated and the code receives
> >> very little maintenance.
> > 
> > I didn't see any deprecation notice yet. And the code receives little 
> > maintenance because for the most part it just works!
> 
> Well, if memory serves me right, Samuel had to raise the alarm rather
> forcefully in order to keep character injection working only a few years
> ago.

The thing is that text input injection is a clear security concern, so
you'd expect some resistance to allowing it back in.

If you really read the thread (tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be disabled) you
won't actually see reluctance. Just a rehash of why brltty is doing
it this way and not another. That's only to be expected, to avoid XY
problem issues.

Samuel