Debian Accessibility Project
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

brltty
Tilgængelighedsprogrammer for en blind person
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jessie5.2~20141018-5amd64,armel,armhf,i386
sid6.6-5amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie6.6-4amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm-backports6.6-4~bpo12+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm6.5-7+deb12u1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye-backports6.5-7+deb12u1~bpo11+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster-backports-sloppy6.5-4~bpo10+1amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
buster-backports-sloppy6.5-3~bpo10+1armel,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster-backports6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1~bpo10+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster5.6-10+deb10u1amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
stretch-backports5.6-10+deb10u1~bpo9+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
stretch5.4-7+deb9u1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
Debtags of package brltty:
accessibilityinput, screen-reader
interfacetext-mode
roleprogram
scopeutility
uitoolkitncurses
usedriver
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License: DFSG free
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BRLTTY er en dæmon, som tilbyder adgang til konsollen (teksttilstand) for en blind person der bruger en brailleskærm. Den driver brailleskærmen og tilbyder fuldstændig skærmfunktionalitet for at gennemse:

  • 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 og PacMate)
  • HandyTech-skærme
  • 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 tilbyder også en klient- og serverbaseret infrastruktur for programmer der ønsker at udnytte en Brailleskærm. Dæmonen behandler lytninger for indgående TCP/IP-forbindelser på en bestemt port. Et delt objektbibliotek for klienter tilbydes i pakken libbrlapi0.8. Et statisk bibliotek, hovedfiler og dokumentation tilbydes i pakken libbrlapi-dev. Bindinger til andre programmeringssprog kan findes i cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java) og python3-brlapi (Python).

console-braille
Skrifttyper og nøglekort for læsning/indtastning af unicode braille
Versions of package console-braille
ReleaseVersionArchitectures
bullseye1.9amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
jessie1.3amd64,armel,armhf,i386
stretch1.4amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster1.7amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
bookworm1.10amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
trixie1.10amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,s390x
sid1.10amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
Debtags of package console-braille:
accessibilityinput
made-offont
roledata
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Denne pakke inkluderer

  • skrifttyper med forskellige størrelser til at optegne braille på Linux- konsollen
  • nøglekort til at indtaste braille som unicodetegn på Linux-konsollen
espeakup
Forbindelsesredskab mellem speakup-kernemoduler og espeak
Versions of package espeakup
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jessie0.71-19+deb8u1amd64,armel,armhf,i386
sid0.90-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie0.90-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm0.90-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye0.80-20+deb11u1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster0.80-15amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
stretch0.80-5+deb9u3amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
Debtags of package espeakup:
accessibilityspeech
interfacedaemon
roleprogram
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Espeakup er en dæmon, som forbinder speakup-kernemoduler til espeaks talesynthesizer via enheden /dev/softsynth.

yasr
Almen konsolskærmlæser
Versions of package yasr
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buster0.6.9-8amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
sid0.6.9-11amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie0.6.9-11amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm0.6.9-11amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
jessie0.6.9-5amd64,armel,armhf,i386
bullseye0.6.9-10amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
stretch0.6.9-6amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
Debtags of package yasr:
accessibilityscreen-reader
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
scopeutility
works-withaudio
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Yasr er en almen konsolskærmlæser for GNU/Linux og andre Unixlignende operativsystemer. Navnet »yasr« er et akronym, som kan stå for enten »Yet Another Screen Reader« (endnu en skærmlæser) eller »Your All-purpose Screen Reader« (din almene skærmlæser).

I øjeblikket forsøger yasr at understøtte synthesizerne Speak-out, DEC-talk, BNS, Apollo og DoubleTalk. Programmet kan også kommunikere med Emacspeak-servere og kan dermed bruges med synthesizere som ikke direkte er understøttet, såsom Festival Lite (via eflite) eller FreeTTS.

Yasr er skrevet i C og fungerer ved at åbne en pseudo-terminal og køre en skal, der opfanger alle inddata og uddata. Programmet kigger på undvigesekvenser der sendes og vedligeholder et virtuelt »vindue« indeholdende hvad der menes at være på skærmen. Det bruger derfor ikke nogen funktioner specifikke for Linux og kan derfor flyttes til andre Unixlignende operativsystemer uden stor besvær.

*Popularitycontest results: number of people who use this package regularly (number of people who upgraded this package recently) out of 236945