Luca Saiu <[email protected]> writes: > Anyway the conversation, and some feedback by others, made me understand > that Brltty is not an AT-SPI client, which was surprising to me.
BRLTTY is historically a console screen reader. It does its thing by reading /dev/vcsa on Linux, and presenting the current text console content to the braille display user. Since BRLTTY has a very complete driver base, an API to it, the BrlAPI, was developed around 2000, and later used by upcoming Linux graphical screen readers like Gnopernicus and later Orca. Whats happening here is, that BRLTTY is presenting the console content to the Linux braille user as long as the text console is active. Once the user switches to a graphical interface like X11 running GNOME and Orca, BRLTTY will give up trying to present anything, and just pass through commands to/from the currently running screen reader for the graphical environment. So while BRLTTY is always talking to the braille display, it is not always responsible for what is actually displayed. As long as you are using in the text console, it is solely responsible for the presentation. Once you switch to a graphical interface, where some other screen reader is actually collecting the information from the desktop, it is merely functioning as a braille driver. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
