[BRLTTY] Braille displays not working with Fedora installation process

[Jaroslav Skarvada]

Hi,

I am downstream brltty maintainer in Fedora.

----- Original Message -----
> Good day,
> I just joined this list so I am not sure if anybody brought this issue up.
> 
> Recently, I tried to install Fedora Workstation 25 and 28 releases. In
> both cases none of used Braille displays seems to work under ORCA. I
> tried this with Focus40 Classic and Blue versions, and Brailliant40.
>
F25 is unsupported, but F28 should work. The Fedora Installer is called
Anaconda, IMHO it supports ATK, so it should work with ORCA. I tried
with speach synthesizer from live media and it worked.

> I am just a user and don't have enough knowledge about development
> aspect of this technologies but it seems to me like lack of
> communication between ORCA and Braille display unit.
>
Regarding brltty & ORCA IMHO it's a bit tricky. From ORCA documentation
ORCA needs brltty running. If brltty is not running ORCA will not
use it. I tried with xw driver (but I had to install brltty-xw first):
$ brltty -b xw -x no -A auth=none,host=127.0.0.1:0
$ orca
$ liveinst

And it worked.

> Another question, is there any possibility to make Fedora Server
> installation accessible for a blind user using Braille or speech?
> 

I created Anaconda bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1584679

thanks & regards

Jaroslav