terminal accessibility

[der.hans]

Am 28. Apr, 2021 schwätzte trent shipley via PLUG-discuss so:

> You can get a whole shell main buffer in standard Linux Emacs.  I have no

Cool. Perhaps emacsspeak will be an option.

Thanks for the clarification!

ciao,

der.hans

> idea what adaptive technology tools will do with it.  Back when I used BASH
> via the Emacs full edit screen shell buffer, it was more convenient than a
> terminal app in a lot of ways.  It also had some nasty gotchas or glitches,
> but that was two decades ago.
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 12:36 der.hans via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> moin moin,
>>
>> I got a question about terminal accessibility. The accessiblity team there
>> has orca for GUI. Looks like orca was originally for providing
>> accessibility for GNOME.
>>
>> orca - Scriptable screen reader
>>
>> They still need something  that works for command line.
>>
>> Anyone know if orca works with gnome-terminal to provide accessibility for
>> command line?
>>
>> I found the following packages, but have no experience with them.
>>
>> fenrir - Userland console (TTY) screen reader written in python
>> yasr - General-purpose console screen reader
>>
>> Also, a two parter emacs question.
>>
>> One can run shell commands in emacs. Can the experience be terminal like
>> enough to use that as the shell? The vi mechanism for running commands is
>> not sufficient to pretend it's a shell.
>>
>> If the emacs command line interface is usable as a shell, does emacsspeak
>> provide a sufficient audio interface for it?
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
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