Re: [orca-list] text console use

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

The You Tube piece is easy. Try utube-viewer, available as a package on
most distros.

The WebRTC piece is a bit more problematic because that world has yet to
settle down into standards based clients. Those folks are still playing
"King of the Hill."

Nevertheless, you can certainly make voip calls over SIP. I do it every
day of the week. The only non SIP device in my home is my cell phone.

So, the operative question might be "What part of WebRTC are you
actually using?" As a blind person, it's probably not the video.

Janina

Orca screen reader developers writes:
> 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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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa