From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from b.mail.sonic.net ([64.142.19.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I323Y-0006aX-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:49:32 -0400 Received: from Reason (mail.jfcl.com [64.142.52.93]) (authenticated bits=0) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5Q3nUqR026039 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:49:31 -0700 From: "Deborah Norling" To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" Subject: RE: Speakup in userspace Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:49:30 -0700 Organization: Spare Time Gizmos Message-ID: <007901c7b7a5$007fc990$eb01010a@Reason> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 In-Reply-To: <001c01c7b35e$15d448c0$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> Thread-Index: AcezkC8yr/8kdR8URpOnJIDPuMYyOgEFHYkg X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: debee@jfcl.com, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:49:32 -0000 Maybe this is stupid, but if you need user-space screen access, couldn't you just use Yasr? Can't its keymap be modified enough to mimic speakup? I guess yasr is really pretty primitive compared to speakup; it can't track highlighting for example. But maybe it would be easier, programatically to just improve yasr rather than rewrite speakup. --Debee