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Package: brltty (4.0-6 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

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: hurd [hurd-i386]
    The GNU Hurd
  • dep: libbrlapi0.5
    braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library
  • dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.9) [hurd-i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4) [amd64]
    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 (>= 2.5) [hppa]
    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]
    General Purpose Mouse - shared library
  • dep: libicu40 (>= 4.0-1)
    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
    Library for communication with BRLTTY - static libs and headers

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alpha 4.0-6 1,520.0 kB7432 kB [list of files]
amd64 4.0-6 1,395.4 kB7240 kB [list of files]
armel 4.0-6 1,415.8 kB7068 kB [list of files]
hppa 4.0-6 1,468.6 kB7232 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 4.0-4 1,294.3 kB6956 kB [list of files]
i386 4.0-6 1,411.7 kB7064 kB [list of files]
ia64 4.0-6 1,545.1 kB7944 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 3.10~r3724-1.1 1,175.4 kB5944 kB [list of files]
mips 4.0-6 1,426.4 kB7252 kB [list of files]
mipsel 4.0-6 1,366.8 kB7248 kB [list of files]
powerpc 4.0-6 1,488.1 kB7396 kB [list of files]
s390 4.0-6 1,400.4 kB7184 kB [list of files]
sparc 4.0-6 1,410.3 kB7116 kB [list of files]