Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:33:30AM +0330, Parham wrote:
> And also another question. What if Orca doesn't support an application?
> Can I get the CLI-based one and try it with Orca then?

If orca doesn't support a gui application, and there is a cli
alternative, then you can get that, and try running it in a xterm. I
haven't played much with orca support in xterm windows, so I don't
know how well that compares to running with speakup in a text console,
out of the gui. Some on here have said orca does well in xterm
windows, others have said that it doesn't do as well as speakup does,
so I don't know.

> And you have put me in doubts that either CLI is the same as GNOME terminal.

Mikel explained this well in one of his posts. Pretend you're using a
win95/win98/winme system. In a dosbox (a command-line window running
in the gui), you are running dos software, but are doing it in a gui,
this is like running a xterm window inside of the gnu/linux gui. Now,
If you went to the shutdown dialogue in our windows system, and chose
"restart the computer in ms-dos mode", You'd be in pure dos, without
the gui, and this is like the gnu/linux text console. Orca is
therefore a gui screen reader that can read xterm windows for you the
equivalent of the dosbox, along with reading the gui. Speakup is a
screen reader for the text console, that will work only in the text
console, the equivalent of using a screen reader in ms-dos mode in our
windows example. I hope that makes sense between the explanation Mikel
gave, and the one I just gave above.

Greg


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