Console screenreaders

[Linux for blind general discussion]

You can define windows in speakup and make those silent by having only
the window where you're working speaking.

On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 04:47:13
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Console screenreaders
>
> With Speakup you can turn the automatic reading of updated content on and
> off with speakupkey+keypad-enter, or control+speakupkey+normal-enter.
> Fenrir has a similar mechanism.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rynhardt
>
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, 21:15 Linux for blind general discussion, <
> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I've never used Tmux, but that sounds like a prime example of why I
> > prefer SBL's less chatty nature to espeakup. To give a similar example
> > with a program I use regularly, Nano defaults to having a title bar on
> > the top and a status bar on the third line from the bottom(the bottom
> > two lines are a command quick reference). Espeakup will read these
> > everytime they change, but SBL will only read them if I use screen
> > review to read them, and in most cases, I prefer not to hear what's on
> > those lines(the one exception I can think of where I would prefer
> > espeakup's chattier behavior is in the case of pressing ctrl+C, which
> > prints current position on the status line(I also often care about the
> > lines written when saving a file, but since I'm usually at the end of
> > a file when saving, I can usually just use caps+pageDown to read from
> > current position to end of screen instead of having to manully
> > navigate to the status line with caps and up/down arrows like I
> > usually have to do with current position since I usually do ctrl+c in
> > the middle of a file).
> >
> > Admittedly, there are cases I wish I could switch between "read all
> > newly displayed text" and "read only what I tell you to read" on the
> > fly. I find the latter better for most things, but the former is nice
> > when playing text adventures.
> >
> > -Jeffery
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