A few questions about speakup

[Willem van der Walt]

One would have to go through its documentation to find how to code it, but 
look at curses-based programs like lynx which has the --show-cursor 
option.
FWIW, Willem


On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> How can curses be told not to lock the cursor?
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:43:37
>> From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 
> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> Subject: Re: A few questions about speakup
>> 
>> Hi,
>> curses by default locks the cursor in one spot on the screen.
>> Pressing the button second from right in the top row of the numeric pad, 
>> switches the cursor tracking of speakup.
>> curses can be told not to lock the cursor.
>> I am sure you can use python, as I think it is simply, at the end of the 
> day, 
>> use the default curses library on your system.
>>
>> I am not running the latest speakup, so might be out of date here, but 
>> utf-8 does not work when you use cut and paste, although they appear 
>> correct on the screen.
>> HTH, Willem
>>
>>  On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Manuel Cort?z wrote:
>>
>>> hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I just decided to subscribe to this list for talking about speakup. I 
>>> have been using it some years ago for accessing to the Linux console (my 
>>> main environment was gnome, though). Now I'd like to ask you a few 
>>> questions, because I am trying to use only the console and speakup is a 
>>> very important part of my learning curve.
>>>
>>> 1. I have been noticing that there are some programs that are pretty 
>>> accessible with Speakup, others that require some modifications (config 
>>> files or speakup modifications) to improve their accessibility with the 
>>> screen reader, but I'd like to know how much accessible are ncurses 
>>> based interfaces with speakup? for a small project I am trying to do, I 
>>> have to create a few menus and some other widgets in the console, so 
>>> I've decided to use the python programming language and the curses 
>>> module already included. But for a strange reason, all of the examples > 
>> that I have found don't work properly with speakup, and I am not sure 
>>> exactly why. I couldn't find any documentation regarding to this. Do i > 
>> have to do something for improving the curses accessibility from Python? 
>>> Do I need to use another programming language?
>>>
>>> 2. English is not my first language, so I've installed the speakup-tools 
>>> package and tried to look for a translation in my language (Spanish) but 
>>> it is not created yet. So basically I've downloaded the repository at 
>>> http://linux-speakup.org/speakup-tools.git and started to work in a few 
>>> improvements and a spanish translation for the speakup messages. Seems > 
>> it's working properly. I also have changed the speakup_setlocale script 
>>> (I have not added this modification to the script located in the 
>>> repository, yet) so it list all directories in @pkgdatadir, looks for a 
>>> file called languagename in every directory and shows a menu with all 
>>> available languages. If called with -l you can set the language code 
>>> directly. Is it possible to send changes upstream somewhere?
>>>
>>> 3. I am learning russian, and I've noticed that there isn not a russian 
>>> translation for speakup, it would be OK if we could create a translation 
>>> for this language? More specifically, do you think speakup will not have 
>>> issues with the russian characters and their encoding? (I assume it 
>>> would be UTF-8, but I'd need to test).
>>>
>>> thank you in advance for your work in the Linux community.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Manuel.
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