Speakup commands

Speakup commands

[Michael]

High list:

Can anyone point me to a speakup command list?
I don't know how to navigate with speakup.
I think this should be vary important to know before attempting a linux
install. LOL <grin>
One more thing:
I herd some rumblings that Redhat was a little bit difficult to install
especially when it comes to the file system selection.  What are some of the
other key problems and
how do you Redhat listers get around that?
Thanks in advance:

Kind regards:
Michael

Re: Speakup commands

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Saqib Shaikh  has a free document which is a brief over view of Speakup.
I believe he gives a list of Speakup navigation commands in his Speakup
Tutorial.
As for Red Hat 7.2 it takes a little practice. At first I thought it looked
hard, but after a couple of tries I got the hang of it.
I personally love the new default file system ext3 that comes with Red Hat
7.2, and believe it to be more stable than ext2.
Esentually, Red Hat installs are a series of dialog boxes, and if you are
familiar with using dialogs under MS Windows these will be quite a bit like
them.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael" <michael.ryan@nf.sympatico.ca>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Speakup commands


>
> High list:
>
> Can anyone point me to a speakup command list?
> I don't know how to navigate with speakup.
> I think this should be vary important to know before attempting a linux
> install. LOL <grin>
> One more thing:
> I herd some rumblings that Redhat was a little bit difficult to install
> especially when it comes to the file system selection.  What are some of
the
> other key problems and
> how do you Redhat listers get around that?
> Thanks in advance:
>
> Kind regards:
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

RE: Speakup commands

[Georgina]

Hi

On the Speakup site there's a file called default key assignments, or
something like that.  But if you can't visit the site yourself and read the
documentation I'll paste it just this once below.

Default key assignments:
This file is intended to give you an overview of the default keys used
by speakup for it's review functions.  You may change them to be
anything you want but that will take some familiarity with key
mapping.

We have remapped the insert or zero key on the keypad to act as a
shift key.  Well, actually as an altgr key.  So in the following list
InsKeyPad-period means hold down the insert key like a shift key and
hit the keypad period.

KeyPad-8		Say current Line
InsKeyPad-8		say from top of screen to reading cursor.
KeyPad-7		Say Previous Line (UP one line)
KeyPad-9		Say Next Line (down one line)
KeyPad-5		Say Current Word
InsKeyPad-5		Spell Current Word
KeyPad-4		Say Previous Word (left one word)
InsKeyPad-4		say from left edge of line to reading cursor.
KeyPad-6		Say Next Word (right one word)
InsKeyPad-6		Say from reading cursor to right edge of line.
KeyPad-2		Say Current Letter
InsKeyPad-2		say current letter phonetically
KeyPad-1		Say Previous Character (left one letter)
KeyPad-3		Say Next Character (right one letter)
KeyPad-plus		Say Entire Screen
InsKeyPad-plus		Say from reading cursor line to bottom of screen.
KeyPad-Minus		Park reading cursor (toggle)
InsKeyPad-minus		Say character hex and decimal value.
KeyPad-period		Say Position (current line, position and console)
InsKeyPad-period	say colour attributes of current position.
InsKeyPad-9		Move reading cursor to top of screen (insert pgup)
InsKeyPad-3		Move reading cursor to bottom of screen (insert pgdn)
InsKeyPad-7		Move reading cursor to left edge of screen (insert home)
InsKeyPad-1		Move reading cursor to right edge of screen (insert end)
KeyPad-Enter		Shut Up (until another key is hit) and sync reading cursor
InsKeyPad-Enter		Shut Up (until toggled back on) and sync cursors
InsKeyPad-star n<x|y>	go to line (y) or column (x). Where 'n' is any
		allowed value for the row or column for your current screen.
KeyPad-/		Mark and Cut screen region.
InsKeyPad-/		Paste screen region into any console.

Hitting any key while speakup is outputting speech will quiet the
synth until it has caught up with what is being printed on the
console.

Gena


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Michael
Sent: 04 November 2001 14:59
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Speakup commands



High list:

Can anyone point me to a speakup command list?
I don't know how to navigate with speakup.
I think this should be vary important to know before attempting a linux
install. LOL <grin>
One more thing:
I herd some rumblings that Redhat was a little bit difficult to install
especially when it comes to the file system selection.  What are some of the
other key problems and
how do you Redhat listers get around that?
Thanks in advance:

Kind regards:
Michael




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RH 7.2 (was: Re: Speakup commands )

[Tony Baechler]

Hello.  I attempted to install Red Hat 7.2, just for the experience.  I
noticed that Speakup would not read the screen by itself when new text
appeared, I had to hit the read entire screen key on the numeric keypad.
Anyway, how am I supposed to tell it where to install?  I already have the
partitions set up the way I want.  I do not want automatic partitioning.
I went into the command line fdisk and set up everything, but it seems to
not let me select my newly created partition to install.  I can highlight
it easily enough, but it insists on making me go through the dialogues.
When I think I have it, it complains that there is no root filesystem.
What should I be doing in the dialogues?  What am I doing wrong?

Re: Speakup commands

[Kirk Reiser]

The speakup default key assignments file is everyones kernel tree in
the file of that name under
Documentation/speakup/DefaultKeyAssignments.

  Kirk

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: RH 7.2 (was: Re: Speakup commands )

[Janina Sajka]

Hi:

First, there most certainly is screen review during the installation 
process, but you have to select the speakup keymap to get it. In other 
words, do not select U.S. when prompted to select a keymap. Though it is 
the default choice, it's the wrong answer.

Re disk partitioning, it's well and good to create your partitions with 
fdisk or some utility other than diskdruid. But, you will need to label at 
least / and /usr, and I think diskdruid is the only do do that.

So, highlight the partition you want to label and select edit. This will 
drop you into an edit field and you can specify the mount point.
 On Sun, 4 
Nov 2001, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Hello.  I attempted to install Red Hat 7.2, just for the experience.  I
> noticed that Speakup would not read the screen by itself when new text
> appeared, I had to hit the read entire screen key on the numeric keypad.
> Anyway, how am I supposed to tell it where to install?  I already have the
> partitions set up the way I want.  I do not want automatic partitioning.
> I went into the command line fdisk and set up everything, but it seems to
> not let me select my newly created partition to install.  I can highlight
> it easily enough, but it insists on making me go through the dialogues.
> When I think I have it, it complains that there is no root filesystem.
> What should I be doing in the dialogues?  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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Re: RH 7.2 (was: Re: Speakup commands )

[Tony Baechler]

Hello.  Yes, I selected the right keymap and I have screen review, but it
does not talk by itself.  I have to wait for the text to display then
manually read the screen.  The RH install is the only program which I have
used that does that.  It is a lot like direct screen writes in DOS.
Anyway, how am I supposed to get to the label field?  I can tab to Edit
well enough, but I found nothing about label.  I guess I will look again,
but I think I must be missing it or it is not being identified.

Re: RH 7.2 (was: Re: Speakup commands )

[Janina Sajka]

I don't recall, off the top of my head, what the label entry field is 
called. I do recall how to get there, though.

While in diskdruid you tab until you are on the partition selection list. 
It's the only place where the up and down arrows work--everything else on 
that screen is something like add, delete, edit, etc. The one you want 
follows help--and speakup may actually say help a second time, but it's 
actually the list of partitions and you use down arrow to move to the 
partition you mean to label. Then, tab to edit and press enter. At that 
point you are in an edit field where you type in the label for that 
partition. If you press the 5 key on the numeric keypad you'll hear that 
there are some number of "lines" as in underlines which indicates the edit 
field.

Hope this helps.

 On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Hello.  Yes, I selected the right keymap and I have screen review, but it
> does not talk by itself.  I have to wait for the text to display then
> manually read the screen.  The RH install is the only program which I have
> used that does that.  It is a lot like direct screen writes in DOS.
> Anyway, how am I supposed to get to the label field?  I can tab to Edit
> well enough, but I found nothing about label.  I guess I will look again,
> but I think I must be missing it or it is not being identified.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp

Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp

Learn how to make accessible software at
http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp