Re: Screen reader advice for a Linux sysadmin

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Hi!
THe braille support on the mac terminal is not so good IMHO.
But it should be possible to compile and install brltty on the mac for better console support.
I haven’t done that yet as i am not understanding how to do that correctly.
/A

> 28 feb. 2018 kl. 17:21 skrev Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Jumping in here to try and clarify one point ...
> 
> Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> ...
> 
>> Do you use also a brailledisplay on the Mac and in the terminal?
>> Answer:
>> I do in deed us a Braille display on my Mac with no problem. I have a Focus 40 Blue and it works great. I will admit that I do not know Computer Braille yet but I would very much like to learn it so I can use Braille when developing software. It is on my to learn list for sure...
>> 
> Would you find your Mac Terminal as useful without the braille? I
> suspect not vis a vis Speakup on Linux.
> 
>> My questions:
>> 1. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on my HP laptop but with little success in the terminal due to things not being spoken. I am running Orca as the screen reader. Can you provide some tips or how toos for making my terminal access and over all Linux experience more accessible?
>> 
> No surprise here. Speakup is what you want for console access.
> 
>> 2. You said "After using a Mac for a few weeks at work I was very disappointed. 
>> Especialy the VoiceOver support in the terminal is not more then 
>> rudimentary compared to the things you can do with a screenreader on a 
>> linux system."
>> 
> This is my experience precisely with my Mac Airbook.
> 
> In fact, while traveling with only the Airbook, I would ssh from a
> VMware Linux session into my Mac to do Mac terminal tasks, because of
> the superior screen reader support.
> 
> As noted above, braille would viciate my statement. I'm speaking of TTS
> only interfacing.
> 
> hth
> 
> Janina
> 
> -- 
> 
> Janina Sajka
> 
> Linux Foundation Fellow
> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
> 
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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