[BRLTTY] brltty "keyboard braille device" support (and a few more things)

[Klaus Knopper]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:41:34PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:04:18AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
>  
> > I myself am strictly a braille user so this may be a stupid question but I'll
> > ask it anyway since I don't mind looking stupid. Why not use one of the
> > speech-based screen readers which are already availalbe and which surely have
> > better speech-based screen navigation functions and presentations than brltty
> > does?
> 
> A good point. I don't think BRLTTY should venture too far into the "speech
> only screen reader" territory, as there are other projects already doing that
> much more effectively: SpeakUp, Yasr, LSR, Orca, etc. Emacspeak is also an
> excellent speech environment, written by one of the few experts in
> speech-based user interface design.

I wasn't talking about taking features away from brltty, but about
adding new ones.

Emacspeak is absolutely unusable for computer beginners. And it is not
even a screen reader.

I would be content with sbl, but I really think that brltty could do a
better job when adopting some of the sbl features.

Regards
-Klaus Knopper