Re: [orca-list] Accessible calendars

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

The cli utility calendar can be useful, you put events into your 
.calendar file with any text editor and format is date followed by white 
space followed by event string on a single line.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, B. 
Henry wrote:

> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 04:43:54
> From: B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessible calendars
>
> Agreed, and if you have a smartphone g-cals are probaly even easier to use there.
> I used lightning years ago in thunderbird, but found it clumsey at times, and annoying if I just wanted to 
> deal with email and not see reminders...Not
> looked at it in yhears, so it may have better or worse accessibility now.
> If you just need to check on dates, e.g. what day of tahe week does the 3rd fall on next month, just type cal 
> in a console or terminal window and review
> the screen. It can tell you things like what day of the week christmas will be on in the year 2058 as well, 
> and with an optional dep handles a  bit of
> human friendly language as I recall.
> I also used the googlecl utils, which could among many other things send you reminders for your events, and 
> schedule new ones using the same language
> you'd use on the website with out the need to fire up a browser and load pages, but as of a few months ago 
> there were issues with authorization  and/or
> core funcgtionality with more aps than not.
> I started looking at some alternatives, but got too busy to follow through with the serious deep dive in to 
> CLI use of todday's g-apps.

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