[BRLTTY] brlTTY support for OpenBSD?

[Jason White]

eric oyen <eric.oyen at gmail.com> wrote:
> The question is fairly straight forward. I would like to get BrlTTY working
> in OpenBSD.  This is important to me as I am not only a user of that OS, but
> I may also be required to use it in a business setting (firewall, vpn,
> etc.). So far, the only support for braille or speech is in X using orca in
> a GTK based desktop environment.  I am going to contact the devs at
> Emacspeak and see if they have any ideas as well. I would certainly not mind
> having some input on this.

There is an option for BRLTTY to use a patched version of GNU Screen, which
you can run after logging into the machine. This is probably what you'll have
to use under OpenBSD as there is no screen driver in BRLTTY to access the
console directly.

Emacspeak is also usable if you have Emacs installed.

You could consider accessing the OpenBSD systems remotely over ssh instead of
locally, or running a serial console connected to a Linux machine. In both
cases you wouldn't have to install BRLTTY or any other access tools on the
OpenBSD system.