Re: [orca-list] Do I always need a graphical server/interface?

[Julien Claassen <julien mail upb de>]

Hello Rusty!
  OK, so you know, that Orca requires the GNOME environment, but you have 
BRLTTY, which works just fine on the commandline and you could also use 
speakup, which is a screenreader for the console. There is also the espeakup 
package, which uses the espeak Text To Speech engine, which you might have 
heard in a screenreader like NVDA.
  Firefox and nautilus need the desktop as well, for they are purely graphical 
programs. I mean, they are only meant for the graphical environment.
  But as far as I know, nautilus is mainly the file browser. So you can 
perform all of its duties on the commandline. Copying, moving, renaming, 
viewing and search your filesystem. There are a few commands, which you'd need 
to know, but it's possible and it's rather fast, once you get used to it. 
Faster in cases than on a desktop.
  Firefox is a browser right? If so, you can have a sort of a substitute on 
the commandline. But none of the commandline browsers support Javascript. It 
can be a bugger, if you have your typical sites and they use javascript. But 
for a quick google search, Wikipedia lookup or similar you might just get by 
nicely with links2 or elinks (which support a LITTLE javascript).
  Warm regards
        Julien

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