Unix

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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> voiceover reads terminal windows, it just isn't very efficient at it.
> 
In that case, perhaps one could shut down voiceover for terminal windows
and run something like yasr or one of the other console readers for
Unix. I've only had experience running Linux with Speakup and I've never
used an OSX system other than showing someone how to do something like
ssh or rsync, so I can't say if it would work or not. It just might, though.

> for instance, if content is coming in and speech is interrupted, it
> does not automatically restart.

A friend of mine told me about that particular shortcoming. It would
probably make terminal windows close to unuseable for me in a lot of
cases. That's something Apple really should look into.

> It is also necessary to use the voiceover cursor to read the windows
> because arrows do other things in terminal like move through the
> history of commands.

That's the case a lot of times no matter what you're using. For example,
if you're sitting at a Linux console and you've got Speakup running, the
arrow keys will a lot of times do something other than move your cursor.
They might allow you to move through command history, for instance. In
an editor like nano you can use them for reading, but a lot of times you
can't.
Joe

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