Re: [orca-list] Orca and terminal text editors

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Well, to develop Al's theme a bit further, I've also found the Macintosh
Terminal virtual unusable with Voice Over.

In fact I've used my Linux virtual machine on my Mac Airbook to ssh into
the osx environment on that same machine for terminal access on
Macintosh.

And, in my home environment, I sse from my Linux system to my Airbook
for any command line work on the Mac.


I guess the bottom line is if you really want to work on the cli, get a
cli screen reader.

Best,

Janina

Al Sten-Clanton writes:
> I suggest using Speakup with the terminal if you can, including using Vim or
> Emacs or pretty much anything else you'd use by way of the terminal.  Orca's
> a great program, but I almost never use it in the terminal except to run my
> speakup script after booting up and loggin in.  I often find that I get more
> information, or at least get it more easily, when on the command line in a
> text console using Speakup than when using Orca in gnome-terminal.
>
> I'm not faulting Orca, by the way.  I think it's a problem with the
> graphical terminal, since I see it using the Windows command line with JAWS.
> Many times, I don't hear much output from a command using the command prompt
> on the Windows box, and sometimes none at all.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Al
>
> On 04/14/2017 09:52 AM, James Austin wrote:
> > Hello everyone
> >
> > Yesterday I began running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in a Virtual Machine. So far,
> > I am really pleased though I have not yet dug into the OS or Orca.
> >
> > Would someone on list please advise on the accessibility/usability of
> > terminal text editors such as Vim and Nano with Orca? Or would it be
> > better to  use these apps with something like SpeakUp?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Take care
> >
> > James
> >
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> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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