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[Trevor Astrope]

The epic client works well for me, but I use the lice script with it, so 
ymmv. I also don't use the debian package.

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Tony Baechler wrote:

> 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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