[BRLTTY] USB HID Braille standard

Felix G. constantlyvariable at gmail.com
Thu Feb 29 06:29:41 EST 2024


Hello list,

Am Do., 29. Feb. 2024 um 09:51 Uhr schrieb Sebastian Humenda <shumenda at gmx.de>:
> HandyTech, AKA HelpTech do this, too. It's merely a hack to circumvent "driver
> installation" on hardware, so that the actual driver can reside in the screen
> reader.

Yes, this is called a custom HID, or vendor-specific HID protocol.
It's technically HID so no additional hardware-level driver is needed.
However, our newest Braille device, called Activator, implements the
actual HID Braille standard as defined by USB.org.
Best regards,
Felix


More information about the BRLTTY mailing list