free terminal emulator for windows - download and install

Charles Crawford ccrawford at acb.org
Mon May 20 13:45:11 EDT 2002


Window eyes uses the insert-a for speak all when you are in teraterm.  That 
program is not all that good from my experience.  I just wish there were a 
good dos telnet program that coudl run from the dos window..

-- Charlie.

At 12:54 PM 5/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>You mention jaws scripts. Are there window-eyes set files too? Or does it 
>work fine without them.
>Greg
>
>
>On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:12:56PM -0400, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> > Janina wrote:
> > > > Another option would be a better screen reader for telnet and a
> > > > better telnet client. That would mean a good DOS screen reader
> > > > like asap or Vocal-Eyes, assuming he can actually run DOS on that
> > > > Windows machine. Neither of those is very cheap, though, and
> >
> > I use a free windows terminal emulator called teraterm. I redefine the jaws
> > function sayNonHighlightedText to read everything appearing on the screen,
> > as long as its not a menu or in a dialog box (about 7 lines of code. Go to
> > http://barajas.mit.edu/teraterm/ to get the package. Just unzip it into a
> > directory somewhere and click on ttermpro.exe for the standard version or
> > ttssh.exe for the ssh version. Both report the application name is
> > ttermpro.exe, so the jaws scripts will work regardless.
> > The jaws scripts are in ttermpro.zip. Download this file, extract to your
> > jaws scripts directory, and then either press enter on this script filename
> > from within windows explorer or press insert+f2 and choose script manager
> > and open the file from there. Once you have the file, press control+s to
> > save and compile it. Now you should be able to run teraterm and jaws should
> > speak correctly.
> >
> > The real problem is text editing. I use ex (vi without the full-screen
> > stuff - basically ed ), but only crazy people like me probably want to go
> > this way. I need to try a full screen editor and make it work via a 
> terminal
> > emulator. VI might be a good choice, but the key bindings only make 
> sense if
> > you know about ed. What's the other choices for full screen editing which
> > are *not* emacs? I've heard of something called vim (is this correct)?
> > There's pico and probably others. I need to try and make this work for
> > myself too, because using ex is nice in some ways, but its more typing than
> > I really want to do with my RSI the way it is.
> >
> > I can help more with this if needed. Its not the greatest solution, but it
> > works very well for me. The terminal emulator is very very stable. Its
> > worked on every version of windows I've tried it on with the same results.
> >
> > Hope this helps someone -- Teddy especially. Please don't hesitate to 
> ask me
> > for more help. I will be unavailable for the next week or so, but after the
> > 28th, I'll be able to answer e-mail again.
> >
> >                     Rich Caloggero
> >                     MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info and Computing
> >
> >
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