Terminal is a bit hit or miss when it comes to ORCA reading it. BrlTTY is far better for terminal operations outside of a GUI. As for Emacsspeak, it can run as a shell, but I am not sure how complete it would be. Fenrir might be better at this sort of thing. I haven’t had much of a chance to run any of the others lately. Been a bit busy just dealing with accessibility issues on a GUI web browser here on OS X. Even got an apple support team trying to figure out why it is that some controls and edit boxes don’t seem to be addressed properly. Btw, there is an ORCA mailing list you might want to look into. They are located here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list

On Apr 28, 2021, at 12:36 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@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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