> On Aug 17, 2020, at 16:47, Chevelle wrote:
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> 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
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.
>
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
[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:
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> 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
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
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:
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> 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
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
