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Package: brltty (4.1-1 and others)

Access software for a blind person using a braille display

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

 * Alva (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680)
 * Baum
 * BrailleLite (18, 40, M20/M40)
 * BrailleNote (18/32)
 * EcoBraille displays
 * EuroBraille displays
 * Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
 * HandyTech displays
 * HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille)
 * LogText 32
 * MDV braille displays
 * Papenmeier
 * Pegasus (20/27/40/80)
 * Seika 40
 * Tieman (Voyager 44/70, 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 libbrlapi0.5. A static library, header files and documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other programming languages can be found in cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java) and python-brlapi (Python).

Tags: Accessibility Support: Input Systems, 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

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  • dep: hurd [hurd-i386]
    The GNU Hurd
    also a virtual package provided by hurd-udeb
  • dep: libbrlapi0.5
    braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library
  • dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.3.4) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.1-udeb
  • dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.9) [hurd-i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.10) [hppa]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4) [amd64]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~) [i386]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, mips, mipsel, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-5) [m68k]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [powerpc, sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.4) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
    dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.4) [alpha]
  • dep: libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4) [not hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
    General Purpose Mouse - shared library
  • dep: libicu40 (>= 4.0-1) [m68k]
    International Components for Unicode
  • dep: libicu42 (>= 4.2-1) [not m68k]
    International Components for Unicode
  • dep: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) [m68k]
    shared libraries for terminal handling
  • dep: libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) [not m68k]
    shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) [not m68k]
    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality
  • sug: brltty-flite [m68k]
    Access software for a blind person using a braille display
  • sug: brltty-speechd [not m68k]
    Access software for a blind person using a braille display
  • sug: brltty-x11
    Access software for a blind person using a braille display
  • sug: festival [m68k]
    General multi-lingual speech synthesis system
  • sug: libbrlapi-dev [m68k]
    Library for communication with BRLTTY - static libs and headers

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alpha 4.1-1 1,534.7 kB7496 kB [list of files]
amd64 4.1-1 1,406.5 kB7180 kB [list of files]
armel 4.1-1 1,432.7 kB7132 kB [list of files]
hppa 4.1-1 1,482.6 kB7292 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 4.1-1 1,308.1 kB7016 kB [list of files]
i386 4.1-1 1,423.3 kB7120 kB [list of files]
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kfreebsd-amd64 4.1-1 1,374.0 kB6778 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 4.1-1 1,324.8 kB6612 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 3.10~r3724-1.1 1,175.4 kB5944 kB [list of files]
mips 4.1-1 1,380.9 kB7308 kB [list of files]
mipsel 4.1-1 1,378.1 kB7312 kB [list of files]
powerpc 4.1-1 1,438.4 kB7456 kB [list of files]
s390 4.1-1 1,414.8 kB7252 kB [list of files]
sparc 4.1-1 1,428.5 kB7200 kB [list of files]