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Package: brltty (6.5-7+deb12u1~bpo11+1+11.0trisquel0)

Access software for a blind person using a braille display

BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode) for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality. The following display models are supported: 

 * Alva/Optelec (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680)
 * Baum
 * BrailComm
 * BrailleLite
 * BrailleNote
 * Cebra
 * EcoBraille
 * EuroBraille (AzerBraille, Clio, Esys, Iris, NoteBraille, Scriba)
 * Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
 * Handy Tech
 * HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille)
 * HumanWare (Brailliant)
 * Iris
 * LogText 32
 * MDV
 * Metec (BD-40)
 * NinePoint
 * Papenmeier
 * Pegasus
 * Seika
 * Tieman (Voyager, CombiBraille, MiniBraille, MultiBraille,
           BraillePen/EasyLink)
 * Tivomatic (Albatross)
 * TSI (Navigator, PowerBraille)
 * VideoBraille
 * VisioBraille

BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for incoming TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library for clients is provided in the package libbrlapi0.8. A static library, header files and documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other programming languages can be found in cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java) and python3-brlapi (Python).

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  • dep: libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91)
    Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
  • dep: libbrlapi0.8 (>= 6.5)
    braille display access via BRLTTY - shared library
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.34)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libcap2 (>= 1:2.10)
    POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (library)
  • dep: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14)
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  • dep: libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1)
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  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0)
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  • dep: libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7)
    General Purpose Mouse - shared library
  • dep: libicu70 (>= 70.1-1~)
    International Components for Unicode
  • dep: liblouis20 (>= 3.20.0)
    Braille translation library - shared libs
  • dep: libncursesw6 (>= 6)
    shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
  • dep: libpcre2-32-0 (>= 10.22)
    New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library - 32 bit runtime files
  • dep: libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101)
    PolicyKit Authorization API
  • dep: libsystemd0
    systemd utility library
  • dep: libtinfo6 (>= 6)
    shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling
  • dep: lsb-base
    Linux Standard Base init script functionality
  • dep: polkitd
    framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
    or policykit-1
    transitional package for polkitd and pkexec
  • rec: python3
    interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)
  • sug: brltty-speechd
    Access software for a blind person - Speech Dispatcher driver
  • sug: brltty-x11
    Access software for a blind person using a braille display - X11 drivers
  • sug: console-braille
    Fonts and keymaps for reading/typing unicode braille
  • sug: unicode-cldr-core
    Common data from Unicode CLDR (core)

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