Re: Other accessible terminal emulation

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xterm doesn't speak but with fenrir it can? Would you be willing to
make a recording of this in action?

On 11/19/18, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
>> Also, previous messages in this thread would suggest it works just as
>> well in a Terminal Emulator as from the terminal itse
> yea exactly. Fenrir provides "drivers" to provide different backends
> (speech, braille (WIP), input, sound, remote and screen)
> currently i implement 2 different screen drivers.
> 1. vcsaDriver: uses /dev/vcsa[1-x] as information source to provide
> information on the screen. this just works for real TTY terminal with an
> existing VCSA device
> 2. ptyDriver: uses pty, fork, and pyte to stand as "man in the middle"
> (like yasr did but in a lot more advanced state). so it spawns an
> terminal and  captures any input you did and watches to the output of
> its child process, processing it and pass it through.
> i suggest to use XTERM or another inaccessible terminal emulator to my
> users, because they don't conflict with orca at all (input (shortcuts)
> and output).
>
>> built-in support for Unicode(arguably of limited use for
> fenrir provides Unicode support as well for any language form just the
> beginning (on VCSA and PTY).
>
>> No idea why Fenrir is named after the Wolf from Norse mythology,
> hehe because i m a rebel ;). Just kidding. the naming was strom_dragons
> idea ;).
>
> sadly i m not a good software deployer, so i just provide packages for
> ArchLinux (since i use it). I also see some debian packages ( i never
> tested or tried them, currenlty).
> But fenrir runs also without any installation just from git, (the
> dependencies are needed of course).
> so if anyone is good in deploying software for different distros with
> setup.py or similar, just tell me :).
>
> cheers chrys
>
> Am 19.11.18 um 18:30 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>> Fenrir is a text-mode, userspace screen reader written in Python. I
>> haven't used it myself, but its gaining popularity as an alternative
>> to espeakup. The two biggest pros I've heard is that, as a user space
>> application, it doesn't require a kernel module(espeakup requires the
>> speakup kernel module) and should thus be easier to setup on distros
>> that don't ship staging modules in their default kernels(speakup has
>> been trapped in staging for years and has little chance of graduating
>> to kernel main short of a complete rewrite as I understand it) and
>> built-in support for Unicode(arguably of limited use for
>> English-speaking users, but could be vital to those whose native
>> language uses a non-Latin Alphabet).
>>
>> Also, previous messages in this thread would suggest it works just as
>> well in a Terminal Emulator as from the terminal itself, which I don't
>> believe I've heard suggest of espeakup or SBL, the latter which I use
>> for terminal speech myself(I only run X for Firefox, so I can't
>> comment on the question of Terminal Emulators).
>>
>> No idea why Fenrir is named after the Wolf from Norse mythology,
>> especially since its traditional to name screen readers after marine
>> animals and this is the only screen reader I know of with a non-marine
>> animal-based name.
>>
>> On 11/19/18, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> What is fenrir?
>>>
>>> On 11/19/18, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> gnome-terminal works as well.
>>>>
>>>> you also can use fenrir to make an terminal emulator accessible by
>>>> starting it with:
>>>> fenrir -e (for using escape sequence shortcuts)
>>>> sudo fenrir -E (using evdev, can only run once)
>>>>
>>>> cheers chrys
>>>> Zitat von Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there any other accessible terminal emulators besides using mate
>>>>> terminal in a window manager?
>>>>>
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