[BRLTTY] Version 3.7 and text application developers

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Aug 4 08:22:50 EDT 2005


Hi,

With the coming 3.7 version also comes the AtSpi screen driver. One
really good point with this is that developers of text applications now
have a very easy way to check by themselves how much their applications
are readable by brltty (and such tty reader in general): they just need
to install the libxaw-dev and at-spi-dev packages, compile brltty,
install it (as root or as user), run brltty -b xw -x as, and run their
applications in gnome-terminal, the reading shows up in the brltty
window.

This should get documented somewhere and very well advertised, but
where? I'd say that brltty's README files are not sufficient for this,
since developers can't divine that they should checkout brltty and read
documentation. A simple tutorial webpage whose URL being announced on
popular news sites could be enough, though.

What are people's opinion about this?

Regards,
Samuel


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