A few questions about speakup

[Jude DaShiell]

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 I am not running the latest speakup, so might be out of date here, but 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