Dave Mielke (2025/12/26 12:38 -0500): > [quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/12/26 at 17:58 +0100] > > >I think as far as Termux is concerned, the kind of hardwareor OS it is > >running on is maybe not the first thing to understand. > > It shouldn't be except that brltty for iOS isn't a thing. I myself am > not interested in spending more than a thousand dollars to get an > iPhone in order to work on it. And then, of course, Apple also charges > some ridiculous amount for a developer to do any develoment work.
I certainly agree that one must bevery strongly motivated to developforiOS. And this is not even mentionning how more difficult it is whenyou are visually impaired and (as far as I know) cannot use XCode that comfortably. I must be missing something obvious but I never understood why Apple makesit so hard forpeople to develop for their platform. My intuition wouldhave been to do exactly theopposite. > >So basically, at least for what I understand, the big thing is to write > >a Termux screen driver. Well on Android, it seems the regular Android > >screen driver already works to some extent, at least it did, except that > >it was not able to figure out where the cursor was. > > On Android, brltty lookos at the screen through Android's > accessibility framework. As long as termux is playing fair, it should > work. If it isn't then my first guess is that it isn't using a text > view. That point had been discussed on the issue. TheTermux people indeed said that they were notusing Android's text view and were drawing everything by themselves. Taht was a surprise to me because, on the one side they certainly know what they are talking about, but on the other side I was able to see something, and I don't know how that owould have been possible at all if they were not using the textview at all. > Another possibility would be that it might be showing where the cursor > is with visual highlighting rather than by rendering the actual > cursor. I could ask sighted termux users, if we do not manage to figure out through another way. > > >And this is were > >some cooperation from Termux would be needed and according to the issue > >I referred to, and on which you yourself commented, Dave, it seemed lie > >a non-trivial job. > > I kind of remember a discussion on this. Maybe it was a while ago. > Anyway, I no longer remember the specifics so would have to try it > again. If you have the bandwidth to, I would be extremely gratefulbecause that is something I'd love to use and I don' think I myself have the skills to work on that. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
