Re: BRLTTY in openSUSE 11.1?

"Kristoffer Gustafsson" <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:01:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.blind
Message-ID <ED39E90919294E08A53EA1E02F4E6221@EVELINA>
Hello!
Well, as I said. the only thing now I need is support for tieman braille 
voyager.
Is there an english blinux sight somewhere?
I've searched but I only found german.
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henning Oschwald" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [blinux] BRLTTY in openSUSE 11.1?


> Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I want to have brltty too.
>> I want to have suse as accessible as debian or fedora, when you can use
>> brltty at boot time with any display you like, and you can choose whether
>> you want to install from the live cd or to have a text install.
>
> Of course you can install Suse with both the text-based and the
> graphical installer. Moreover, SBL is able to handle text mode YaST much
> better than Brltty would, because SBL is able to track attribute
> cursors, which Brltty can't do. And yes, SBL supports USB braille
> displays as well. So why replace a console screenreader with a lot of
> important and useful features with another screenreader which lacks some
> of them? (automatically loading application profiles, soft-cursor
> tracking and better speech output support, just to name a few.)
>
>> I don't like that you need a serial display in order to install suse
>> from the normal cd or dvd, there are almost no motherbords with serial
>> ports left, and the new braille displays are usb displays.
>
> USB/serial converter do exist and SBL can handle USB connected braille
> displays too.
>
>  Henning
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