The epic client works well for me, but I use the lice script with it, so ymmv. I also don't use the debian package. On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hi all, > > Samuel previously stated on this list that I was complaining but not helping > with better Debian accessibility. Therefore, I'm asking here first to find > out what I should do. Should I file a bug or is there something I can set in > Speakup to get around the problem? > > The problem is with the ircII client. It seems to work fine and has no > obvious accessibility problems. It is a text mode program and works fine > from the console. However, everything I type is repeated by Speakup. If I > type the slash for example, I hear "slash slash." If I'm typing a command > like /help, I her "slash slash h h e e l l p p." I can minimize this by > turning off key echo, but I don't understand why it echos everything. Is > there a fix for this? Other irc clients don't have that problem and I > haven't found any other programs that do that. I used to have a similar > problem in DOS but it had to do with graphics. I think it might be how it > writes to the screen, since the cursor isn't always on the same line as the > text I type, but I think I tried turning off cursor tracking with no > improvement. > > Should I use a different irc client, just live with it, file a bug or what? > What other irc clients are people using? I've installed all the text mode > clients that come with Debian, but I really think I like ircII best. Is > there another client not available in Debian that I should compile from > source? Is it an issue with the Debian scripts? Thanks all for any other > thoughts you might have. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
