Mac terminal - Efficiently using terminal with screenreader

[dan d.]

A key commander is different then a shortcut key and worrks only if voiceover is being used.

In the voiceover utility there is a an area to set key commanders.  These allow listing a series of mac and voiceover commands in the order
one wantss them performed and assign that commander to a key combination.  For example, the read fromtop of screen has the three commands
assigned to option+r.

The os10 comes with a few already defined.  Turn permission to use apple scripts on, then option+t will speak time and date.  That key
commander runs an apple script that performs that function.

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, Reece O'Bryan wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >> 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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