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

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Speakup Modified Fedora is now quite historic and not really relevant in
its particulars to today's Fedora. In other words the general guidance
there is still good guidance, but none of the specific steps are
relevant to getting Speakup working on Fedora.

To my knowledge there's no one packagin the kernel staging modules any
longer--not stince Bill Acker's passing. The last release from rpmfusion
was for kernel 4.0.4 and was actually broken.

I presume anyone could pick this up either for the entire staging tree,
or specifically for Speakup. I decided I didn't want to take that
responsibility on myself and switched my hands on systems to Arch as a
consequence. My only remaining Fedora install is on Linode.

Best,

Janina


Nolan Darilek writes:
> Is there a good modern guide for running Speakup on Fedora? I've googled and
> found Speakup-*modified* Fedora, but I'm happy enough with the generic
> install that I don't really want to switch distributions. Can it not be
> packaged via akmods like other kernel modules?
>
>
> Sorry, I acknowledge this isn't Orca-related. I promise not to ask a bunch
> of Speakup questions, and I'm fairly competent enough to follow even vague
> Linux directions without guidance. I just don't want to join a separate
> mailing list to, essentially, post just this message and nothing else. :)
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On 04/14/2017 10:56 AM, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
> > Use Speakup in a second (third, fourth, ... Nth) console/terminal for
> > character based apps.
> >
> > More elaborate answer:
> >
> > You may want to learn to use screen as your terminal, at first for its scroll
> > back capacity. This is a powerful console terminal application with many
> > compelling features.
> >
> > If you go to emacs, you may want to learn emacspeak.
> >
> > You can have all the above plus Orca in your graphical desktop. Simply
> > move among them as needed.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Janina
> >
> >
> > James Austin writes:
> > > 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 wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
>
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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
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org

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