Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:59:26PM -0700, David Csercsics wrote:
 
> Well, the problem is integration. If you need to paste something from
> a website that you required javacrapscript or  some other bizarre GUI
> weirdness to get at into a terminal window like the one you use to
> read your mail then you can't do that from a text console because the
> data is in the GUI. That's just one example but there are others. The
> point is that sighted people do things from GUI terminals with no loss
> in functionality so we should be able to as well. 

I agree with this. Furthermore, it shouldn't be difficult to do. All that is
necessary is to make access to gnome-terminal work reliably and efficiently,
which is exactly the same problem as making any other application accessible.

While I'm not planning to do my console-level work from gnome-terminal in the
near future, I appreciate the reasons why providing this level of access is
necessary.

Of course, Linux must remain highly accessible directly from the virtual
consoles without X running.