[BRLTTY] what would be the most blind friendly distribution

[Shérab]

Hi,

>    I am thinking getting to the world of linux and I wonder what would be
>    the most blind friendly full distribution to use which would support
>    brltty 4.2?

Mario, the maintainer of the brltty Debian package, is very active,
which means that there is a good synchronisation beteen debian packages
and the upstream sources. Moreover particular attention is given in
Debian to the installer and its accessibility by visually impaired
persons. So for instance the USB braille displays are now autodetected
by the installer, which means that the installation is possible with
them from standard Debian CDs without any extra work.

>    What is the difference between brrltty and brlapi?

brltty is the software that lets you review the screen through a braille
display or speech synthesis. brlapi is, so to speak, a component that
lets other applications use the braille display to display what they
want. brlapi has one part in brltty which receives the requests of other
applications, and one part as a library other applications may use to
send their requests to brltty andprocess its replies.

Shérab.