[BRLTTY] Stand-alone portable document viewer for braille display?

Tomas Valusek tvalusek at seznam.cz
Sun Jun 10 10:30:49 EDT 2007


Hello,

there are generally two ways to make apps accessible. One way, commonly 
used, is to expose some sort of information to so called screen reader, 
which is responsible for presenting these information to user. The other 
way is to incorporate speech synthesis and/or Braille support directly 
into applications, which know best what they want to say, thus providing 
extended accessibility support for one particular application.

I'm not completely blind, I can use computer visually, but I can read 
Braiile. So I¨d like to have some sort of text viewer displaying its 
output on Braille display and being controlled mainly by Braille display 
buttons, which would run along with other app, controlled visually. 
Possible usage? E.g. reading docs on Braille while trying various 
techniques on app the docs are about, or reading game walkthru while 
playing a game.

Would it be so hard to incorporate BRLTTY as extension into vim or 
emacs, so that their window contents would be displayed on Braille? Or 
provide simple plain text viewer with its output on Braille? I'd like to 
use such a tool on Windows.

Tomas Valusek


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