irc

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hello,
I've never had that problem with speakup, but my usage isn't really much to 
speak uf.
I personally like BitchX the best--though you should read docs before you 
use it.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:44 AM
Subject: irc


> 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.
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