Re: interacting with the cursor:

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Hi.
Gnopernicus behaves the same as my text console screen readers.  It
doesn't have the review features of a console screen reader, but it
does speak chars as the cursor moves to them.  This is using gedit.  I
don't know of another accessible editor in Gnome at this time.

          Kenny
	  
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:52:45PM -0500, david poehlman wrote:
> Kenny and all,
> 
> The cursor is never on a character as I understand it but the screen readers 
> have tweaked the ui or the screen readers have a ui that defines the 
> behavior as if the cursor were a block covering a character that you hear. 
> When you say that gnoernicus tracks the cursor, in what ehavior with regard 
> to ackspace, delete and insert does this produce?
> 
> -- 
> Johnnie Apple Seed
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:03 PM
> Subject: Re: interacting with the cursor:
> 
> 
> Hi.  Your description is a little confusing, but I think the answer to
> your question is yes.
> 
> You move the cursor to the right of the char to delete if you use
> backspace, and you put the cursor on the char to delete if you use the
> del key.  Usually, the screen reader reads the char under the cursor
> when you use the "read current char" function of the screen reader.
> 
> As far as I know, Gnopernicus doesnt have a "read current char" key, but
> it tracks the cursor.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 

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