A few questions about speakup

[Willem van der Walt]

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I am not running the latest speakup, so might be out of date here, but 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 Cortéz 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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