Re: [orca-list] text console use

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

lynx can play youtube with the right .mailcap entry.
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018,
Jace Kattalakis via orca-list wrote:

> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:56:19
> From: Jace Kattalakis via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Reply-To: Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] text console use
>
> 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.
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