free terminal emulator for windows - download and install
Gregory Nowak
greg at romualt.dhs.org
Mon May 20 16:00:26 EDT 2002
Is this true for wineyes 3.1, since that's what I own? I don't remember seeing sets for teraterm in there, but I'll try it out anyways, and see what the results are. Thanks.
Greg
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:36:48PM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> Window-eyes ships sets for teraterm which work very nicely out of
> the box. All you have to make sure is that you are using a
> vertical cursor shape in teraterm and you will be set.
>
> Gregory Nowak said
> the following on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:54:01PM -0500:
> > 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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