suggestions for Speakup

[Kirk Reiser]

Adam Myrow <myrow at eskimo.com> writes:

> Here are two things I would like to see some future version of Speakup be
> able to do.  First, I'd like to see a way of turning off the keypad.  For
> example, when numlock is on, the keypad would act normally and type
> numbers.  The second is some sort of frames or windows support.  What I
> mean is the feature where you can designate a part of the screen, say,
> lines 2 and 3, and instruct the screen reader to ignore these lines, but
> let you have them spoken on demand with a hot key.  Both DOS and Windows
> screen readers can do this, but I have no idea how it would be done in
> Speakup's current state since it can't save settings directly.  What do
> you all think of these ideas?  Are they doable?

They are both good ideas and are both already in the todo file in the
speakup distribution.

As of last night, the 2.4.x speakup branch has the numlock on/off
support built-in.  The 2.2.x branch is currently broken and I am
working on fixing that.

The frame/windows suggestion is one which will take a lot of work to
implement and although it is in the todo list it is certainly not high
on my priority list.

Some one else requested a search feature; I also think this is a good
idea and will put it in the todo list.  I don't know when I'll get
around to looking at that one.

On another note, mentioning that something should be there because it
is part of windows/dos screen review packages is a non-starter with
me.  That means we should do something because it is available in that
other o.s.  I base what needs to be done on what features seem
reasonable to provide better access to linux.  I am not at all
interested in keeping up with those other packages.  So if you folks
want to make a comparison based on features, you might as well just
piss off.

  Kirk

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