[nfbcs] The Mac Terminal

[JIm Barbour]

Kevin,

I'm surprised that you say the MacOS terminal is totally accessible
using voiceover.

My experience has been that I can't easily get it to read new text as
it is put in the terminal.  I need to dig around in the scroll area to
get things read to me.  So, for example, if I run the date command;
voiceover doesn't read back the response unless I go searching for it.

Can you explain how/if you've gotten around this problem?

Thanks,

Jim

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:10:52PM -0600, Kevin Fjelsted wrote:
> Kevin;
> If you can run the program directly on Unix or Linux you may have better luck using an SSH program on either Windows or Mac.
> I believe there are a number of SSH solutions that are accessible to windows screen readers.
> The Mac Terminal program is totally accessible to the native Voiceover screen reader for use as an SSH client on the Mac.
> -Kevin
> 
> On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:44 PM, "Currin, Kevin" <kwcurrin at live.unc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > First I would like to greet everyone since I am new to the list. My name is Kevin and I am an undergraduate biology major interested in programming.
> > 
> > Second, I apologize if this issue has been answered. I browsed through the prior cygwin-related postings, but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.
> > 
> > I recently started doing research at a bioinformatics lab that analyzes RNA folding. In order to do my part of the research, I have to use a program called RNAfold. The lab PI suggested using cygwin to run the program. However, I ran into a few problems trying to use cygwin. When I open the cygwin terminal, I cannot get jaws (version 12) to read the output of what I type. The only way I can get such information is by pressing insert+b to read the whole window, or by selecting the entire window and pasting it into notepad. It doesn't even seem like the terminal is doing anything when I enter inputs (though I know it is doing something). Does anyone have any suggestions for anything I can do to start to get the terminal to behave more like an actual command line with jaws?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
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