Brltty

Brltty - Gives blind users access to the GNU/Linux console

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 web site has a complete list of braille display models that are supported.

Features include blinking cursor and capital letters, screen freezing for leisurely review, attribute displays and attribute underlining to locate highlighted text, hypertext links, intelligent cursor routing for easy cursor movement without moving your hands from the braille display, a cut and paste function, on-line help, and a modular design that lets you add drivers relatively easily.

Obtaining

Web page http://mielke.cc/brltty/
Source tarball http://mielke.cc/brltty/download.html
Version 2.1 (stable) released on 1999-03-22
Version 2.98 (beta) released on 2001-06-26

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

English user manual available in HTML, PostScript, or plain text formal from http://mielke.cc/brltty/documentation.html German user manual available in HTML, PostScript, or plain text formal from http://mielke.cc/brltty/documentation.html

Support contacts

Help List	<dave@mielke.cc>
Developer List	<dave@mielke.cc>
Bug List	<dave@mielke.cc>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
Developers	Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Stéphane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca> Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
Contributors	Nikhil Nair <nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk> James Bowden <jrbowden@bcs.org.uk> August Hörandl <hoerandl@elina.htlw1.ac.at> Oscar Fernandez <ofa@once.es> Jos LemmensYannick Plassiard <jlemmens@inter.nl.net> Wolfgang Astleitner <wolfgang.astleitner@liwest.at> Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org> Per Lejontand <per@acc.umu.se> S?bastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinderer@libertysurf.fr> Christian Comaschi <christian_comaschi@libero.it>

Related information

Interfaces	daemon
Source languages	C
Related programs	emacspeak, Emacspeak-ss

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-07-09
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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