Package: brltty (4.2-7+squeeze1)

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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

• dep: libbrlapi0.5

  braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library

• dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.3.4) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]

  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc0.1-udeb

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4) [amd64]

  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

  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]

  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb

• dep: libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4) [not kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]

  General Purpose Mouse - shared library

• dep: libicu44 (>= 4.4.1-1)

  International Components for Unicode

• dep: libncursesw5 (>= 5.7+20100313)

  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 - Speech Dispatcher driver

• sug: brltty-x11

  Access software for a blind person using a braille display - X11 drivers

• sug: console-braille

  Fonts and keymaps for reading/typing unicode braille

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