On Fri, 26 Dec 2025, Dave Mielke wrote: > Apple alread provides braille through VoiceOver. Is that inadequate in some > way that brltty could improve upon?
I do use VoiceOver with speech only and it is mostly excellent. In general, accessibility feels much better on iOS than Android, even with Google's own apps. The braille content provided by VoiceOver is analogous to what Orca provides on Linux. BRLTTY, being a braille backend, wouldn't bring anything more than what VoiceOver already does in that regard, other than supporting more braille devices. About Termux on iOS: The iOS apps named "Termux" (like Vinaeco's version) provide a Linux terminal simulator with: - Standard Unix utilities (ls, grep, cat, nano, vim) - Shell scripting support - Directory navigation with Unix commands - Touch-optimized interface However, these appear to be pre-bundled command sets - you get commands that were included when the app was installed, but you can't add more packages like you can on Android Termux. For a much Linux-like experience on iOS I recommend iSH instead. It is also fairly VoiceOver friendly. iSH must perform software emulation due to iOS sandbox restrictions. It emulates x86 (32-bit) instructions as well as Linyux system calls providing a Linux-like user space environment. iSH comes with Alpine Linux's apk package manager by default so you can install more packages... including ssh for example. You _can_ install and/or compile BRLTTY in iSH but it likely won't work as iSH does not implement the necessary abstraction to let userspace applications access USB or Bluetooth devices (and it is not clear to me if iOS would let iSH access them anyway). Nicolas _______________________________________________ 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://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
