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Package: brltty (4.1-1)

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

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  • dep: libbrlapi0.5
    braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library
  • 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 (>= 2.6) [powerpc, sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.4) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4)
    General Purpose Mouse - shared library
  • dep: libicu42 (>= 4.2-1)
    International Components for Unicode
  • dep: libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
    shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14)
    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality
  • sug: brltty-speechd
    Access software for a blind person using a braille display
  • sug: brltty-x11
    Access software for a blind person using a braille display

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mips 1,380.9 kB7308 kB [list of files]
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