Efficiently using terminal with screenreader

[Zachary Kline]

Hey,

A few thoughts about the terminal in Mac OS.

There is a screen reader called TDSR, which can be found here on Github <https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr>. It has better Terminal support than VoiceOver, though takes some getting used to.

As far as your mac and a hardware speech synthesizer, using it with a virtual machine is your only option. VoiceOver doesn’t support hardware synths at all. Fortunately, if you use it with a virtual machine, which I’ve done before, it should work fairly well.

That being said, TDSR is worth a look if you’re open to a lighter-weight solution.
Best,
Zack.
> On Dec 17, 2020, at 12:37 PM, Reece O'Bryan <reece.obryan at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Great! Seems to be the same process as connecting a network adapter to a virtual machine.
> That is a little discouraging I can’t compile on my MacBook. The native terminal doesn’t seem to be accessible. I can’t read the output line by line, only the entire output from top to bottom of the terminal. I could be missing something, I am still quite new to voiceover. Although I have talked with a couple of MacBook users that have used voiceover for quite a few years, they are not familiar with terminal, but still could not figure out how to navigate it easily either. Maybe the hardware synthesizer could help there. (?)
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -Reece 
> 
>> On Dec 17, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 03:00:52PM -0500, Reece O'Bryan wrote:
>>> Is it possible to compile speak up on my MacBook?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 03:12:54PM -0500, Reece O'Bryan wrote:
>>> Just to confirm, I’m going to need a serial adapter to plug in to my
>> USB hub connected to my MacBook, then connect a hardware synthesizer
>> to the cereal.
>> 
>> Correct.
>> 
>>> Doing it this way would I be able to use the hardware synthesizer inside of virtualBox running Debian and Speakup? I assume that it should in theory, but if not because of the virtualization, then plan B is doing the exact same thing while booting from something like Ubuntu on the USB.
>> 
>> Yes, that should work, though I haven't done that in a while. You have
>> to options here. First option is to define a serial port which would
>> appear in your guest as a physical serial port, and you would set that
>> up to interface to your USB serial port on the host. The second option
>> is to dirrectly pass the USB serial adapter through to the guest. The
>> virtualbox user's manual has more details.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
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