Summary
Console screen readers
Debian Accessibility Console (text-mode) screen readers
This metapackage will install packages which are useful for
Console (text-mode) screen readers.
Description
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Debian Accessibility Console screen readers packages
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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brltty
Access software for a blind person using a braille display
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| jessie | 5.2~20141018-5 | amd64,armel,armhf,i386 |
| sid | 6.7-1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| trixie | 6.7-1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| bookworm-backports | 6.7-1~bpo12+1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| bookworm | 6.5-7+deb12u1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| bullseye-backports | 6.5-7+deb12u1~bpo11+1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| buster-backports-sloppy | 6.5-4~bpo10+1 | amd64,arm64,armhf,i386 |
| buster-backports-sloppy | 6.5-3~bpo10+1 | armel,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| bullseye | 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| buster-backports | 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1~bpo10+1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| buster | 5.6-10+deb10u1 | amd64,arm64,armhf,i386 |
| stretch-backports | 5.6-10+deb10u1~bpo9+1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| stretch | 5.4-7+deb9u1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| Debtags of package brltty: |
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| accessibility | input, screen-reader |
| interface | text-mode |
| role | program |
| scope | utility |
| uitoolkit | ncurses |
| use | driver |
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License: DFSG free
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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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console-braille
Fonts and keymaps for reading/typing unicode braille
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| Versions of package console-braille |
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| Release | Version | Architectures |
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| bullseye | 1.9 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| jessie | 1.3 | amd64,armel,armhf,i386 |
| stretch | 1.4 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| buster | 1.7 | amd64,arm64,armhf,i386 |
| bookworm | 1.10 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| trixie | 1.10 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| sid | 1.10 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| Debtags of package console-braille: |
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| accessibility | input |
| made-of | font |
| role | data |
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License: DFSG free
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This package includes
- fonts with various sizes to render braille on the Linux console
- keymaps to type braille as unicode characters on the Linux console.
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espeakup
Connector between speakup kernel modules and espeak
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| Versions of package espeakup |
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| jessie | 0.71-19+deb8u1 | amd64,armel,armhf,i386 |
| sid | 0.90-16 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| trixie | 0.90-16 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| bookworm | 0.90-13 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| bullseye | 0.80-20+deb11u1 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| buster | 0.80-15 | amd64,arm64,armhf,i386 |
| stretch | 0.80-5+deb9u3 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| Debtags of package espeakup: |
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| accessibility | speech |
| interface | daemon |
| role | program |
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License: DFSG free
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Espeakup is a daemon that connects speakup kernel modules to the espeak
software speech synthesizer through the /dev/softsynth device.
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yasr
General-purpose console screen reader
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| buster | 0.6.9-8 | amd64,arm64,armhf,i386 |
| sid | 0.6.9-11 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| trixie | 0.6.9-11 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x |
| bookworm | 0.6.9-11 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| jessie | 0.6.9-5 | amd64,armel,armhf,i386 |
| bullseye | 0.6.9-10 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| stretch | 0.6.9-6 | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x |
| Debtags of package yasr: |
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| accessibility | screen-reader |
| interface | commandline |
| role | program |
| scope | utility |
| works-with | audio |
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License: DFSG free
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Yasr is a general-purpose console screen reader for GNU/Linux and
other Unix-like operating systems. The name "yasr" is an acronym that
can stand for either "Yet Another Screen Reader" or "Your All-purpose
Screen Reader".
Currently, yasr attempts to support the Speak-out, DEC-talk, BNS, Apollo,
and DoubleTalk synthesizers. It is also able to communicate with
Emacspeak servers and can thus be used with synthesizers not directly
supported, such as Festival Lite (via eflite) or FreeTTS.
Yasr is written in C and works by opening a pseudo-terminal and running a
shell, intercepting all input and output. It looks at the escape
sequences being sent and maintains a virtual "window" containing what
it believes to be on the screen. It thus does not use any features
specific to Linux and can be ported to other Unix-like operating
systems without too much trouble.
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