[BRLTTY] BRLTTY in the terminal under Wayland sessions

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Jun 5 19:12:41 EDT 2023


Jason White, le lun. 05 juin 2023 18:13:05 -0400, a ecrit:
> 
> On 5/6/23 17:31, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > ? It does work in my tests. How do you run it?
> > At-spi is actually mostly independent from the differences between x11
> > and wayland.
> 
> Interesting - the script for running it is installed for X11 only, and runs
> xbrlapi, which I assume is X11-specific, as the name suggests.

Yes, xbrlapi is x11-specific.

> The script then invokes BRLTTY with the AT-SPI driver.
> 
> Is there an equivalent script somewhere for Wayland sessions?

I don't know.

> I'm looking for the same result: Orca has control over the braille
> device except in the terminal, where BRLTTY provides the access
> directly.

For a start you could check that running brltty by hand, like the script
does, works.

Samuel


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