Re: [orca-list] access in text consoles

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Hermann wrote:

> To be more precise: The Gnome terminal, a console withing Gnome, is

Well its a terminal in gnome not a text-console. I thought the first 
question was related to text-mode?

> completely accessible with Orca. But besides this terminal, there are six

Well yes, it is pretty accessible the actual console, but more programs 
will work with speakup or brltty.

> more terminals, that are completely text based. For them you need a screen

You could add more if you wanted as well...

> reader, and Hardy comes with brltty, which, however, requires a braille
> display.

of course

> Unfortunately there's no Speakup on Ubuntu since one year, so that one has
> to install a screen reader, such as yasr, to use the text console with
> speech only.

Why not consider using my linux 2.6.23 kernel patched with speakup?
Its a little out of date, but not too bad.
Its a .deb file...

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