[Blindmath] LaTeX editor

[Michael Whapples]

The alternative for working in cygwin would be to use some of the unix 
screen readers which might work better as they are designed for the text 
environment. As an example those using a Braille display could use 
brltty and for speech you could use YASR. One thing to note is that some 
Linux screen readers (IE. speakup) will not work in cygwin as they work 
so closely with the Linux kernel.

My personal opinion is that if you are going to go through the bother of 
installing cygwin you may as well try Linux. Using Linux itself will 
open the possibility of things like speakup (which I feel is the best 
text mode Linux screen reader).

Michael Whapples
On 10/11/09 14:44, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
> Most of Cygwin runs in text mode at the Windows Command prompt, giving 
> you a BASH shell.  Emacs runs in text mode.  There are limitations 
> with screen readers in command prompt mode; I often use the mouse 
> cursor of Window-Eyes to read parts of the screen, and haven't tried 
> to get productive in this environment.  W-E does track the Cygwin cursor.
>
> You can also run Xemacs in the Cygwin environment.  This runs in a 
> graphical mode which Window-Eyes treats like a Windows application, 
> complete with reasonable reading of the alt-key pull-down menus.  I 
> have heard of someone running Emacspeak within Cygwin, but I think it 
> would be fairly hard to set up.
>
>
> At 03:19 AM 11/10/2009, you wrote:
>> Andrew Stacey <andrew.stacey at math.ntnu.no> wrote:
>>
>> > I have used emacs under windows using cygwin.  I understand that 
>> there are
>> > native binaries as well.  I have no idea about emacspeak, though.  
>> The only
>>
>> The other issue is that on Linux, at least, if you run Emacs under X 
>> it will
>> start a GUI rather than a console session. As I understand it, 
>> Windows always
>> runs a graphical interface, and it is therefore possible that the native
>> binaries could operate as a GUI and there might be accessibility 
>> problems in
>> that case.
>> > irritation I found with emacs under cygwin wasn't emacs' fault but was
>> > because I couldn't figure out how to redefine my keyboard the way I 
>> wanted
>> > to.
>> >
>> > Needless to say, I switched back to Linux as soon as I was able to.
>>
>> That's the way to go.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer, Engineering Section
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