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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 (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680)
* Baum
* BrailleLite (18, 40, M20/M40)
* BrailleNote (18/32)
* EcoBraille displays
* EuroBraille displays
* Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
* HandyTech displays
* HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille)
* LogText 32
* MDV braille displays
* Papenmeier
* Pegasus (20/27/40/80)
* Seika 40
* Tieman (Voyager 44/70, CombiBraille, MiniBraille and MultiBraille)
* Tivomatic (Albatross)
* TSI (PowerBraille/Navigator)
* 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 libbrlapi0.5. A static library, header files and
documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other
programming languages can be found in libbrlapi-java (Java) and
python-brlapi (Python).