question about what speakup can read

[Michael Whapples]

Speakup is only for the text console, it will not read any of the GUI
systems like gnome (the git version of speakup automatically disables
speakup in those consoles not in text mode). For gnome use orca. There
are different screen readers for both the text console and gnome, but I
feel speakup and orca are the best. Both orca and speakup can exist
happily on the same system, I have that set up here and other distros
certainly have shipped like that in the past (ubuntu being the example I
am thinking of).

Michael whapples
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:01 +0000, alex wallis wrote:
> hi list.
> I was just wondering if someone could tell me,
> is speakup only capable of working in a command line environment? or can it read a gui interface?
> also, as obviously different screen readers can do different things, would it be possible to have a distro that included both speakup and orca?
> i'm thinking for example if the main part of the distro had a gnome gui, but you needed to use the command line for some tools it included.