[BRLTTY] Android and SSH/Terminal

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2026/06/12 at 18:13 +0200]

>The thing that would worry me about such an approach, though, is that it
>would kind of split the world intto two: one interface for sighted
>people ando one for visually impaired persons. Our interface would be
>way less tested, we would never be sure we are on feature parity with
>what sighted persons can do.

It wouldn't be that different - just in how the screen is rendered. An Android text view is a standard widget which, really, all apps should be using. The problem with ssh people is that they want to use cool fonts so that what the user sees on his screen looks like a PC console. There's a similar problem with Bible apps, by the way. They, too, want to use fancy fonts so that the text looks official, classic, etc. Sighted people just can't seem to satisfy themselves with basic-looking text.

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