[BRLTTY] Emacspeak and Braille displays

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Rich Morin on 2016/06/13 at 20:08 -0700]

>The BRLTTY page talks about providing access to the Linux/Unix console:
>
> BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the
> Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a
> refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and
> provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability
> has also been incorporated.
>
> -- http://mielke.cc/brltty/

Please use brltty.com instead.

>The Linux console is a rather specialized "terminal" (tty) that can emit
>log messages, accept administrative commands, etc.  

That's not the sense in which that statement is being made.

>I hope that this is not the only terminal that BRLTTY can access.
>
>Specifically, I would hope that BRLTTY can be used to display arbitrary
>content from a specified terminal session, Emacpeak buffer, etc.  Is this
>the case?  

Yes, of course!

>If not, would it be hard to set up?

That was achieved way back in the mid '90s. :-)

>Comments and suggestions welome... (ducks)

I'm curious. Ducks?

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