Efficiently using terminal with screenreader
Janina Sajka
janina at rednote.net
Fri Dec 18 06:12:00 EST 2020
Karen Lewellen writes:
> out of curiosity, does fenrir work with any dectalk hardware?
No, and adding this kind of support would be, I suspect, nontrivial.
> Kare
>
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > I agree with this advice. However, getting both environments function
> > with speech could prove to be a challenge on your hardware.
> >
> > Speech Dispatcher doesn't play with Speakup. There are other
> > complications that may, or may not prove problematical.
> >
> > Your best bet might be Fenrir.
> >
> > My current solution is as follows:
> >
> > Speakup using espeak with the espeakup connector. Note this is the old
> > espeak, not espeak-ng.
> >
> > Orca with Speech-Dispatcher using RH Voice.
> >
> > FYI: I'm on a fully updated Arch.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > Zachary Kline writes:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > To be perfectly honest, I recommend using Speakup for good terminal support. Orca is rather sub-par in this regard, and Speakup was designed to fully support command-line output from the start.
> > > Best,
> > > Zack.
> > >
> > > > On Dec 14, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Reece O'Bryan <reece.obryan at icloud.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I’m having trouble efficiently accessing outputs from terminal in Orca. I need a fully functioning screen reader, is there an easy way to navigate line by line of output from terminal in espeakup or orca?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > >
> > > > -Reece
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> > Janina Sajka
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> >
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Janina Sajka
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka
Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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