Re: SAK and screen readers

On December 05 at 18:50 EST, Samuel Thibault hastily scribbled: > The problem comes when using SAK: brltty gets killed because it owns an > fd on /dev/tty0. This is a problem since the blind user then just can't > use her computer any more... > > Could there be a solution for brltty yet not

SAK and screen readers

Hi, BrlTTY is a screen reader: it is a deamon run as root on machines used by blind users for getting the content of the screen via braille or speech. BrlTTY, like other screen readers (susebl, yasr, ...) needs to open /dev/tty0 for performing various actions, namely: - VT_ACTIVATE -

SAK and screen readers

Hi, BrlTTY is a screen reader: it is a deamon run as root on machines used by blind users for getting the content of the screen via braille or speech. BrlTTY, like other screen readers (susebl, yasr, ...) needs to open /dev/tty0 for performing various actions, namely: - VT_ACTIVATE -

Re: SAK and screen readers

On December 05 at 18:50 EST, Samuel Thibault hastily scribbled: The problem comes when using SAK: brltty gets killed because it owns an fd on /dev/tty0. This is a problem since the blind user then just can't use her computer any more... snip Could there be a solution for brltty yet not being