Respect to Blazie Technologies, they are at least trying

By TheBlindGuy07, 8 October, 2025

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Assistive Technology

So this BrailleNote Touch topic made me think again about cost of device vs what we get, hardware and software wise.
https://www.blazietech.com/bt-braille
At least, they are trying, this is made for power users, and now with the rpi compute module 5 and 16gb ram, it's probably the most advanced in term of raw compute power in a blind assistive tech we've ever seen. Run on linux with full access if we want.
I wonder if their devs can contribue to the linux accessibility stack directly?
I'd love to see something like bt-speak software but inside canute console, something in the latter is opensource so maybe.

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By Angel Blessing on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 15:11

They would have to implement Orca, directly implement Orca within the bt speak pro, not only with in the full Linux os but also out side in their own software; as to contributing to the accessibility stack you would have to get in contact with joanie who mantains Orca The problem is that not all linux distros are accessible out of the box, ubuntu and ubuntu mate are the ones that come to mind that are fully accessible.

By TheBlindGuy07 on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 18:35

Similar to what Matt Campbell did in 2023-2024.
I love Fedora 42 with Gnome 48 too.