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[Tony Baechler]

Hi all,

Samuel previously stated on this list that I was complaining but not 
helping with better Debian accessibility.  Therefore, I'm asking here 
first to find out what I should do.  Should I file a bug or is there 
something I can set in Speakup to get around the problem?

The problem is with the ircII client.  It seems to work fine and has no 
obvious accessibility problems.  It is a text mode program and works 
fine from the console.  However, everything I type is repeated by 
Speakup.  If I type the slash for example, I hear "slash slash."  If I'm 
typing a command like /help, I her "slash slash h h e e l l p p."  I can 
minimize this by turning off key echo, but I don't understand why it 
echos everything.  Is there a fix for this?  Other irc clients don't 
have that problem and I haven't found any other programs that do that.  
I used to have a similar problem in DOS but it had to do with graphics.  
I think it might be how it writes to the screen, since the cursor isn't 
always on the same line as the text I type, but I think I tried turning 
off cursor tracking with no improvement.

Should I use a different irc client, just live with it, file a bug or 
what?  What other irc clients are people using?  I've installed all the 
text mode clients that come with Debian, but I really think I like ircII 
best.  Is there another client not available in Debian that I should 
compile from source?  Is it an issue with the Debian scripts?  Thanks 
all for any other thoughts you might have.