Mac terminal - Efficiently using terminal with screenreader

[Reece O'Bryan]

I definitely agree voiceover is superior with the selection of voices and the customization they are from my own limited experience so far. If I understand you correctly, you created essentially a keyboard shortcut that does exactly what I have been trying to do? How can you do this?


Thank you,

-Reece 

> On Dec 18, 2020, at 12:01 PM, dan d. <dandunfee at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I use voiceover in the mac terminal, even as I write this.  The quality and intelligibility and control of the voices is far superior to
> anything one can get with a cconsole screen reader, that is what keeps me from using linux.  alone.
> 
> There are a ffew prior selections required, the most imporant is to interact with the terminal; mac users will know what that means.  At that
> point one can use the standard voiceover cursor commands to read the screen systematically.  Some, like read screen from the top reqqquires
> two commands because one doesn't want the title line reade everytime.  One command goes to the top of the screen, the second goes down one
> line and begins reading.  I used a key commander to combine both steps and assigned it to a single key combination.
> 
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Zachary Kline wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>>> 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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