Years ago I used yasr quite regularly. I used it when I was traveling and needed my computer in situations where it just wasn't possibly to wire up a serial synth. Obviously, this was before Speakup supported software speech. It worked well enough. But, I can tell you that I was alway very, very happy to get back to a more situation where I could wire in my synth and fire up Speakup. PS: The guy who wrote yasr while he was still in school is now the maintainer of AT-SPI/ATK, the APIs that help drive Orca for us. Janina Kyle writes: > According to Jason White: > # It runs its own shell and captures input/output, somewhat like screen(1). > > This actually makes YASR the most portable text console screen reader I > am aware of, since it can run on just about any Unix-like operating > system. It runs entirely in userspace and depends on shell output rather > than relying on any kernel level code or output. It also has the benefit > of being able to work with a wide range of hardware synthesizers via > Emacspeak servers and possibly other local drivers as well, and also has > software speech available through various interfaces, including EFlite > and speech-dispatcher. The trade-off is that you will get no speech > prior to login, although with the correct login script, you can have > YASR come up automatically once you've logged into the console you want > to use. There once was a separate program included in the YASR source > tree that could read the console prior to login, but I don't currently > know if it still works. I remember getting it to work at one point, but > that was some time ago. I did most things with a single text console > that ran YASR automatically at login and did all my work in Screen, > which allowed me to have a nearly unlimited number of "windows" open on > a single console, all under a single YASR instance. > > Just a quick note: because of the way YASR works in a subshell, it > should be capable of working in a desktop terminal application like > Xterm, giving you familiar functionality when you have that text-based > application that Orca doesn't like in gnome-terminal. Keybindings > shouldn't be a problem either, even if you use gnome-terminal and > silence Orca, since as far as I know, there aren't any conflicts between > Orca and YASR keyboard commands. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ > -- > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
