Hi: I have been providing some tech help for a blind friend, although I'm sighted myself.
Andre has for twenty years run a DOS system using the Powerbraille80 display. He has now found himself running out of dial-up options, and needs to move on to something with a standard ethernet connection to a fiber modem. He and I and a third friend with some IT experience have been trying to get him connected, but have had no luck with various DOS programs and NIC hardware. Right now, he has some connectivity with a Windows 7 machine running a trial copy of Dolphin. We have tried brltty on that Windows machine, but were unable to get it to work. I'm a long time Linux user, and would frankly love to get him on that platform. This leads us to three questions: 1.) Are there any brltty users in the Chicago area, or for that matter, somewhere in the US that Andre might call by phone to chat with about their experience? 2.) Does brltty have screen reading capability, or is it primarily a braille display driver that needs other software for the reading function? 3.) Do we need an additional driver for the Powerbraille80 display, or ?? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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