[nfbcs] The Mac Terminal

[Kevin Fjelsted]

Perhaps you will need to adjust the verbosity settings under VO utilities or set up a custom activity.
I just opened a terminal session and typed date and heard the date spoken back to me immediately upon pressing enter.
One thing to keep in mind is that if the unix/linux app is VT100 based such as Nano, accessibility works very well but QuickNav must be turned off so that the arrow keys are sent to the app. THis is done by holding down left and right arrow simultaneously.

In this mode one can use the arrows to move around and edit just as if one is in a GUI text editor such as TextEdit.

If one wants to review a previous line in the terminal buffer without disturbing the VT100 emulation then it is best to turn quicknav on, or hold down the VO cmd-option keys when using the arrows.
  
On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:45 PM, JIm Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:

> 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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