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.

brlapi is a library which gives an application access to a braille display and lets it write braille.

this package contains the static library libbrlapi.a and header files in /usr/include/brltty/ necessary to compile programs for brlapi, a client-server based mechanism to remotely access a braille display.