If anyone would be interested in supporting the useful parts of
javascript, edbrowse was written to support the useful parts for screen
readers and leaves out the rest. It was also removed from perl in its
current version and is now in one of the dialects of C by now. Not
anything I want to do with substantial code familiarization.
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, Kirk Reiser wrote:
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 11:38:24
From: Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A few questions about speakup
Hello Manuel: You certainly do cursor control with python no
problem. It is a tad fiddly until you get the basics set up to do it
as part of your screen updates but it works just fine with speakup
without having to revert to highlight tracking or anything like that.
Here is a web browser we wrote which we don't support any longer
because firefox has moved away from supporting anything other than
javascript but it works just fine with ff up to version 42 I believe.
git clone http://bmcginty.us/clifox.git
Here is another full text browser which we also don't support any
longer but for the sake of examples you can certainly look through the
code to see how it was done. The same way as clifox actually. We
morphed wb into clifox on many levels.
git clone http://linux-speakup.org/wb.git
I hope these are useful examples.
Kirk
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, Manuel Cort?z wrote:
Hi,
Thank you all for your replies. I have tried the same code using
libcurses in C and it works properly, however for python I have to
switch to highlights tracking in speakup to do the job. So I think I'll
use the C library for making the menus and call stuff from that, or try
to look a way for changing this preference in speakup every time I'd
need it.
Btw, I think the function for changing the cursor mode is the
curs_set(int); (0=invisible, 1=normal mode, 2=high visibility mode).
El 30/11/2016 a las 11:40 p. m., Willem van der Walt escribi?:
One would have to go through its documentation to find how to code it,
but look at curses-based programs like lynx which has the
--show-cursor option.
FWIW, Willem
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:
How can curses be told not to lock the cursor?
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Willem van der Walt wrote:
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:43:37
From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A few questions about speakup
Hi,
curses by default locks the cursor in one spot on the screen.
Pressing the button second from right in the top row of the numeric
pad, switches the cursor tracking of speakup.
curses can be told not to lock the cursor.
I am sure you can use python, as I think it is simply, at the end of
the
day,
use the default curses library on your system.
I am not running the latest speakup, so might be out of date here,
but utf-8 does not work when you use cut and paste, although they
appear correct on the screen.
HTH, Willem
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Manuel Cort?z wrote:
hello everyone,
I just decided to subscribe to this list for talking about speakup.
I have been using it some years ago for accessing to the Linux
console (my main environment was gnome, though). Now I'd like to
ask you a few questions, because I am trying to use only the
console and speakup is a very important part of my learning curve.
1. I have been noticing that there are some programs that are
pretty accessible with Speakup, others that require some
modifications (config files or speakup modifications) to improve
their accessibility with the screen reader, but I'd like to know
how much accessible are ncurses based interfaces with speakup? for
a small project I am trying to do, I have to create a few menus and
some other widgets in the console, so I've decided to use the
python programming language and the curses module already included.
But for a strange reason, all of the examples >
that I have found don't work properly with speakup, and I am not sure
exactly why. I couldn't find any documentation regarding to this.
Do i >
have to do something for improving the curses accessibility from
Python?
Do I need to use another programming language?
2. English is not my first language, so I've installed the
speakup-tools package and tried to look for a translation in my
language (Spanish) but it is not created yet. So basically I've
downloaded the repository at
http://linux-speakup.org/speakup-tools.git and started to work in a
few improvements and a spanish translation for the speakup
messages. Seems >
it's working properly. I also have changed the speakup_setlocale script
(I have not added this modification to the script located in the
repository, yet) so it list all directories in @pkgdatadir, looks
for a file called languagename in every directory and shows a menu
with all available languages. If called with -l you can set the
language code directly. Is it possible to send changes upstream
somewhere?
3. I am learning russian, and I've noticed that there isn not a
russian translation for speakup, it would be OK if we could create
a translation for this language? More specifically, do you think
speakup will not have issues with the russian characters and their
encoding? (I assume it would be UTF-8, but I'd need to test).
thank you in advance for your work in the Linux community.
Best Regards,
Manuel.
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