Re: [orca-list] text console use

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

To play Youtube on a Linux console, use mps-youtube.

About webRTC: I never heard of it until today. The home page says that Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Android and 
IOS are supported and there is also licode: 
https://github.com/lynckia/licode

What we need to integrate it with a text web browser like lynx is developers. Do you volunteer?

Of course a graphical environment is easier to grab. But for those who have the patience to learn, a text UI 
is usually as good and usually is more feature comlete, when it exists.

Stupidly old school? Yes I am, and proud of it.

I didn't grew up on Commodore and stuff, because I used a personal personal computer for the first time in 
1978 (yes, 40 years ago) and neither ms-DOS (1980) nor Commodore 64 (1082) existed then.

Still I was able to use the computer, which obviously had a proprietary OS, to translate into French its 
BASIC interpreter (key words and error messages), all that in 64 Kb of RAM (yes, kilobytes) and not having 
the source code at hand.

O Tempora! O Mores!

Best,

Didier

On 10/13/18 6:56 AM, Jace Kattalakis via orca-list wrote:
> You find me a CLI browser that can do webRTC and play Youtube without a graphical environment, and I may 
> change my tune but I'd argue a graphical environment is easir to grab for everyone unless you're stupidly 
> old school and grew up on Commodore and DOS stuff.
>
>
> On 12/10/18 20:13, Didier Spaier wrote:
> > 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.
> > _______________________________________________