I live in Mattoon, about 3 hours from Chicago.
I use Linux with brltty.
In fact, I am one of the maintainers of the TalkingArch distribution.
The powerbraille should work with Linux. I do not have one, but I used to
a long time ago, and I did use it at that time.
If he wants a windowing environment, Orca works with brltty as well.
Orca is a screen reader.
If he just wants a basic command-line, we can do that as well.
my contact is [email protected] or cell: 217.254.2407
I consult, so am available on a fairly flexable basis.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, [email protected] wrote:
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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