developing accessible console applications

Hermann meinelisten at onlinehome.de
Tue Jul 14 11:36:28 EDT 2009


am Di 14. Jul 2009 um 17:11:36 schrieb Gaijin <gaijin at clearwire.net>:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:05:21AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote:
> > Does anyone have any good tips on how to create real accessible 
> > console-based applications? ones that work really well with speakup 
> > and/or brltty?
> 
> 	Best console program I've used has been mutt for mail, except for the menu/keystroke/options line being at the top, rather than at the bottom of the screen where it will be read first.  Nano doesn't seem to  have too many problems, either.  I'd look at their sourcecode for hints.
> 
You can switch the top and bottom line in Mutt by editing your .muttrc.
Enter:
set status_on_top
And you will see what you want.
Hermann



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