Re: [orca-list] text console use

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Christopher:

What may be easier for you may not be easier for me. A lot depends on
what you know, or what you may not yet have learned.

I'll speak only for myself. I find hunting through menus an annoying
time waster. For me it's easier to construct a command on the cli, even
in those situations where I need to take a peek at the man page.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

Janina

Orca screen reader developers writes:
> Well, I'd have two answers to a question like this. First, is no, a blind
> person doesn't need a graphical environment, just like no one needs a PC in
> the first place. This depends on what you mean by need though.
>
>
> My second answer is that a blind person would want to use a graphical
> interface for the same reason sighted users want to use a graphical
> interface. It's just easier to find and use the applications you want to
> use. Sure, if you go on a list like this, or Google different things you can
> do from the command line, you can find out how to do a lot of things, but
> with a graphical interface, you can find a lot of things just by exploring
> the desktop and the applications you have on your desktop yourself.
>
>
> On 10/12/2018 02:13 PM, 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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> -- 
> Christopher (CJ)
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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