Begin4 Title: brltty Version: 3.0 Entered-date: 2002/07/13 Description: Braille Display Driver for Linux BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability has also been incorporated. Keywords: refreshable braille display console access visually impaired blind linux Author: dave@mielke.cc (Dave Mielke) nico@cam.org (Nicolas Pitre) s.doyon@videotron.ca (Stéphane Doyon) nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nikhil Nair) Maintained-by: dave@mielke.cc (Dave Mielke) Primary-site: ftp.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/access 807kb brltty-3.0.tar.gz 546kb brltty-3.0-1.i386.rpm 799kb brltty-3.0-1.src.rpm 10kb brltty-3.0.README 2kb brltty-3.0.lsm Alternate-site: ftp://leb.net /pub/blinux/brltty Original-site: Platforms: Linux (kernel 1.1.92 or later) Supported Braille Displays: - Alva [ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite] - BrailleLite [18/40] - BrailleNote [18/32] - CombiBraille [25/45/85] - EcoBraille [20/40/80] - EuroBraille [Clio-noteBraille 40] - HandyTech [Modular 20/40/80, Wave 40, Star 40/80, Bookworm] - LogText [32] - MDV (protocol 5) [MB208/MB408L/MB408S] - MiniBraille [20] - MultiBraille [MB125CR/MB145CR/MB185CR] - Papenmeier [Tiny, Compact, 2D Lite/Screen, EL2D 40/66/80, EL 40/80, Elba 20/32, IB 80] - TSI [Navigator 20/40/80, PowerBraille 40/65/80] - Vario/RBT (emulation 1) [40/80] - Vario/RBT (emulation 2) [40/80] - VideoBraille [40] - VisioBraille [2040] - Voyager [44/70 (USB)] Supported Speech Synthesizers: - Alva [Delphi] - BrailleLite - CombiBraille - External Speech - Festival Text to Speech Package - Generic Say (pipes to /usr/local/bin/say) - Televox - ViaVoice Text to Speech System Copying-policy: GPL End