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Package: brltty (3.7.2-2ubuntu3)

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Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Mario Lang

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Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal

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 following display models are supported: 

 * Alva (ABT3xx/Delphi)
 * BrailleLite (18/40)
 * BrailleNote (18/32)
 * EcoBraille displays
 * EuroBraille displays
 * HandyTech (Bookworm/Braillino/Braille Wave/Braille Star 40/80)
 * LogText 32
 * MDV braille displays
 * Papenmeier
 * Tieman Voyager 44/70 (USB), CombiBraille, MiniBraille and MultiBraille
 * TSI (PowerBraille/Navigator)
 * Vario (Emul. 1 (40/80)/Emul. 2)
 * 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 libbrlapi. A static library, header files and documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev.

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  • dep: libbrlapi1
    braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5)
    Shared libraries for terminal handling
  • sug: brltty-flite
    Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
  • sug: brltty-x11
    Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal
  • sug: festival
    general multi-lingual speech synthesis system
  • sug: libbrlapi1-dev
    Library for communication with BRLTTY - static libs and headers

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 768.5 kB3612 kB [list of files]
i386 721.2 kB3452 kB [list of files]
powerpc 785.3 kB3700 kB [list of files]