Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp

[Parham]

Yes Greg, it made perfect sense.
Thank you.
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp


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> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:33:30AM +0330, Parham wrote:
>> And also another question. What if Orca doesn't support an application?
>> Can I get the CLI-based one and try it with Orca then?
>
> If orca doesn't support a gui application, and there is a cli
> alternative, then you can get that, and try running it in a xterm. I
> haven't played much with orca support in xterm windows, so I don't
> know how well that compares to running with speakup in a text console,
> out of the gui. Some on here have said orca does well in xterm
> windows, others have said that it doesn't do as well as speakup does,
> so I don't know.
>
>> And you have put me in doubts that either CLI is the same as GNOME 
>> terminal.
>
> Mikel explained this well in one of his posts. Pretend you're using a
> win95/win98/winme system. In a dosbox (a command-line window running
> in the gui), you are running dos software, but are doing it in a gui,
> this is like running a xterm window inside of the gnu/linux gui. Now,
> If you went to the shutdown dialogue in our windows system, and chose
> "restart the computer in ms-dos mode", You'd be in pure dos, without
> the gui, and this is like the gnu/linux text console. Orca is
> therefore a gui screen reader that can read xterm windows for you the
> equivalent of the dosbox, along with reading the gui. Speakup is a
> screen reader for the text console, that will work only in the text
> console, the equivalent of using a screen reader in ms-dos mode in our
> windows example. I hope that makes sense between the explanation Mikel
> gave, and the one I just gave above.
>
> Greg
>
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