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Package: brltty (3.7.2-7.1)

Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal

BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode) for a blind person using a soft braille display. It drives the braille terminal and provides complete screen review functionality. The following display models are supported: 

 * Alva (ABT3xx/Delphi)
 * Baum
 * BrailleLite (18/40)
 * BrailleNote (18/32)
 * EcoBraille displays
 * EuroBraille displays
 * Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
 * HandyTech (Bookworm/Braillino/Braille Wave/Braille Star/Modular)
 * LogText 32
 * MDV braille displays
 * Papenmeier
 * Tieman Voyager 44/70 (USB), CombiBraille, MiniBraille and MultiBraille
 * Tivomatic (Albatross)
 * TSI (PowerBraille/Navigator)
 * Videobraille
 * VisioBraille

BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for incoming TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library for clients is provided in the package libbrlapi. A static library, header files and documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev.

Tags: Accessibility Support: Screen Reading, Implemented in: C, User Interface: Text-based Interactive, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Interface Toolkit: Ncurses TUI, Purpose: Hardware Driver

Other Packages Related to brltty

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: libbrlapi1
    braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) [not alpha, i386, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) [i386]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.5-1) [alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5)
    Shared libraries for terminal handling
  • sug: brltty-flite
    Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
  • sug: brltty-x11
    Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
  • sug: festival
    general multi-lingual speech synthesis system
  • sug: libbrlapi1-dev
    Library for communication with BRLTTY - static libs and headers

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