Re: [orca-list] text console use

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Funnily I would tend to ask the opposite question: why a blind person would need a graphical environment?

I know at least one blind Slint users who never use one.

I believe that most things done in a graphical environment can also be done in a console, often with a better 
productivity. This stands for blind as well as sighted people.

A few examples: for writing you have a lot of text and code editors like nano, emacs and vim, mutt for 
emails, lynx and links for web browsing, mplayer to listen to music, vlc to listen to movies, crafty to play 
chess, games like freeswipe or scribble, the list goes on and on.

Actually the first personal computer I used nearly 40 years ago didn't have a graphical environment, maybe 
that's why I am used to text mode.

Best,

Didier

On 10/12/18 7:48 PM, Michael Weaver via orca-list wrote:
> I don't know if this is the right list to ask on as it is not strictly Orca but it is about text 
> screenreaders but is text console use still necessary. I am not quite clear on this point. The reason is 
> that you can use the terminals in gnome, Mate or maybe other desktops like mate-terminal from an alt F2 run 
> prompt which is why I ask about text consoles, your CTRL ALT F1 to F6 which don't speak with Orca so need a 
> different screenreader.
>
> Just curious with projects like Fenrir.