[NFBCS] Linux Screen Readers

[Doug Lee]

I'm not running YASR or similar; I'm using JAWS or sometimes NVDA on Windows. I'm currently writing this email
in a Vim session on top of Mutt, a Unix mail reader for the text environment which is also full-screen.

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for with cursor positions. If you mean you can't see where the cursor
is, perhaps I scripted for that many years ago and still use it in JAWS; haven't done as much in NVDA with
full-screen apps I suspect. I was under the impression though that cursor finding works natively most of the
time now. Of course, some apps need to be told; for example, Lynx (the cat) needs the -show-cursor option, and
Mutt needs "set arrow_cursor" in its .muttrc file.

As for actual numeric position, Alt+Del in JAWS gives me a good idea. In older JAWS versions it was
pixel-based, but now it's character-based. Not sure about NVDA. Vim's Ctrl+G command presents position
information on the bottom line as well.

Let me know if I missed the mark entirely here. :)

On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:40:06PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
	hello Doug.  All of that makes sense, but when ever I use the cmd window in Windows, I
can't get row and column information for the cursor position or for which line I'm currently
reading from anything in that window.  Are you running something like Yasr in the WSL window to
get speech directly from the virtual Linux box?  If not, how do you track row and column
information?  That is, if you're cursor is on line 5 column 20, how do you determine that?  Or,
If you're looking at some text, how do you determine where on the terminal screen that text is?
-thanks
-Brian

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