the direction of speakup

[Kirk Reiser]

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:

> an improvement to backup, to save the regions of the screen we define, the
> windows defined on a screen to be silent, verbose, etc. Moreover, these kind
> of settings could be defined per-application. For example, how can speakup
> handle the reading of text browsers, for example, such as links? So far, in
> my memory, it only read the status line.

Hi Jean-Philipp: The saving of portions of the screen can be
accomplished with the cut-and-paste key combinations of speakup and
then pasting into another editor.

Speakup currently has facility to mark portions of the screen and have
it shut-up so you don't hear changes in that window. My original plan
was to include program specific settings but I never got that far
before moving on to other things. I'll put that back on the item list
as something to consider.

As for text browsers, lynx, links, w3m and elinks all will out put and
track the cursor for pages that have no javascript or ajax. There is a
browser which a few of us are working on currently 'wb' which supports
js not badly. There is another solution that Brandon McGinty, mostly,
is working on to use firefox under xvfb and feeding the output to a
text console program for display. It workks very well on the pages
I've had the chance to try it on.

Thank you for your input and please let me know if I've missed any of
your questions or ideas.

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