Re: [orca-list] Orca xterm braille Eclipse

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi,

Well, you are on the right track, but you made some serious mistakes
here. First, RHEL 6 is a pretty poor choice if you are aiming for
screen reader accessibility. The version of Gnome is out of date as
well as all the required accessibility packages etc. I would highly
recommend a distribution with at least Gnome 3.4.1 and Orca 3.4.2
although Gnome 3.6 is preferred. Something like Fedora 17, Ubuntu
12.04, or Sonar 12.10 is really necessary for a good accessible Linux
experience. Second, xterm is not accessible. Use gnome-terminal
instead.  So to answer your question the combo of xterm and a braille
device won't work but a combo of gnome-terminal, Orca, and a braille
device will work fine. :D

On 12/20/12, Knaapen, Wim <wim knaapen oce com> wrote:
> Hello All,
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> I have a question regarding the use of a Braille device in the
> combination with an xterm sessions of eclipe. The situation is as
> follows: A colleague of mine is blind and depends on a freedomscientific
> focus 80 Braille device. He works normally with windows and that works
> reasonable. But for a new application he needs to use eclipse on a Linux
> box. First we tried to simply use exceed on his PC. Visually that works,
> he gets the screen, but Jaws (his screen reader package) only reports a
> blank screen, no information on what is on the screen.
>
> We were told that it should work better if you use a Linux (gnome)
> desktop. So we installed Linux (RHEL 6) and activated Orca to see if
> that would work. But now I'm running into several problems. First of
> all, the Braille device doesn't work in graphical mode (the Orca Braille
> monitor shows the correct data, but the device doesn't). If I start the
> Linux box in non-graphical mode the Braille device works and shows the
> correct information. But as I explained we need the graphical interface.
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> Next problem I have is when I display an xterm session on the Linux box
> Orca doesn't show any information from inside the xterminal (the Braille
> monitor stays blank).
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> The big question is, does the combination xterm - Braille device work at
> all? Has anybody such a combination running? And the next question would
> be, how did they get it to work.
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> If you need more information, just ask ...
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> PS I use brltty as Braille device driver.
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