Hi!
Its an intresting thought though.
So i am intrested in this.
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> 18 aug. 2020 kl. 07:48 skrev Aura Kelloniemi :
>
> Rich writes:
>>> On Aug 17, 2020, at 09:03, Mario Lang wrote:
>>> A physical keyboard doesn't sound like a real problem.
>
>> I'm mostly basing this on comments by a blind f
The Orbit Writer is new, so I have no experience with it.
http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-writer/
There is also a Podcast at this link discussing it, which I haven't
listened to yet.
http://www.dr-carter.com/
On 8/17/2020 11:13 PM, Rich wrote:
On Aug 17, 2020, at 16:47, Chevel
[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2020/08/18 at 08:48 +0300]
>(Rich, for your information, braille with BRLTTY is not really supported in
>graphical terminal emulators. Emulators that support at-spi2 are
>accessible to some extent, but this support is not up for day-to-day use.
...
>BRLTTY does
[quoted lines by Rich on 2020/08/17 at 20:13 -0700]
>In any case, braille screen input is a larger and longer-term effort, but I
>wanted
>to get some feedback on it before diving in...
You asked, in an earlier message, where to send the key events. My
recommendation is to create a new (additiona
Rich writes:
> > On Aug 17, 2020, at 22:48, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
> > I suppose that with PostmarketOS this setup is already very easy to
> > achieve. A
> > rebuilt kernel with VT support is probably the only thing needed.
> I suspect that a PinePhone, some earbuds, and a USB-C keyboard w
> On Aug 17, 2020, at 22:48, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
Thanks for the insightful comments.
> 1. A mobile computer with braille & speech support
Braille displays aren't cheap; AFAIK, they start around $1K. My impression
is that most folks who have them didn't buy their own. So, either an employer
Rich writes:
> > On Aug 17, 2020, at 09:03, Mario Lang wrote:
> > A physical keyboard doesn't sound like a real problem.
> I'm mostly basing this on comments by a blind friend who uses an old, small
> iPhone for much of her Internet access. She is unhappy that all of the new
> iPhones are
> On Aug 17, 2020, at 16:47, Chevelle wrote:
>
> Braille screen input would be fine, but the first challenge would be to
> get
> Linux installed and have some accessible applications.
Agreed. I've been working on that problem, mostly by assembling a
machine-readable
list of plausible appl
Hey Rich, might I please engage w/you off list?
On 8/17/20, Chevelle wrote:
> Braille screen input would be fine, but the first challenge would
> be to get Linux installed and have some accessible applications. I find
> it hard to imagine using Braille Screen Input for any serious work.
> Ma
Braille screen input would be fine, but the first challenge would
be to get Linux installed and have some accessible applications. I find
it hard to imagine using Braille Screen Input for any serious work.
Many Braille displays already have keys that allow Braille input. If I
remember cor
[quoted lines by Rich on 2020/08/17 at 15:07 -0700]
>pmOS is based on Alpine Linux; is there a BRLTTY port for that?
Brltty already runs on ARM-based Android devices. Whatever additional support
it may need for what you're doing shouldn't be hard to add.
>If not, are there any gnarly problems
> On Aug 17, 2020, at 14:00, Brian Tew wrote:
>
> I seem to contradict all your usuallys in my chubby person—
> stone blind, always preferred linux, prefer keyboards for input,
> And I would be delighted to have such a Phone with brltty on it.
> So we do exist; maybe more than you think.
I'm del
I must say that I am very interested in this project, BSI for the
command line on a linux phone. I don't want any gui at all, all I want
is a headless linux terminal just as my normal linux terminal on my
computer. I think a very good solution is to make BSI to be another
input device for brltt
I seem to contradict all your usuallys in my chubby person—
stone blind, always preferred linux, prefer keyboards for input,
And I would be delighted to have such a Phone with brltty on it.
So we do exist; maybe more than you think.
> On Aug 17, 2020, at 3:21 PM, Rich wrote:
>
Thanks for the
Thanks for the detailed, thoughtful response! I've edited in my answers below.
> On Aug 17, 2020, at 09:03, Mario Lang wrote:
>
> Voice Recognition also conflicts with your idea of a CLI-based system.
It's certainly an unusual combination, but not unthinkable. For example,
if Richard Stallman
Rich writes:
> I'm a sighted, semi-retired, volunteer developer who is very interested in the
> possibility of re-purposing Android cell phones as blind-accessible computing
> and communication devices. There are a number of projects working on re-using
> the billions of aging cell phones that a
Although this question is somewhat off-topic, I'm hoping that some folks here
will find it interesting enough to give me a bit of slack. Anyway, here goes...
Background
I'm a sighted, semi-retired, volunteer developer who is very interested in the
possibility of re-purposing Android cell phones
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