[NFBCS] Which graphical screen readers are folks using under Linux/BSD/Unix?

Wed Dec 2 23:18:20 UTC 2020

Brltty will drive your Braille display in the console, and it also has an 
API that Orca can use to provide Braille. You'll need to be sure that your 
Braille display is passed through so that your virtual machine will see 
it, and I'm not familiar with vmware at all, so I can't help you there.

On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Maurice Mines via NFBCS wrote:

> Hello, Great for me, when I tested it and a virtual machine running inside of VMware let's voiceover turned off, fire fox with orca ran perfectly of a test I browsed to the NFB national office a site, and my state affiliates website. As well as the national library of Congress. And had no problems. This is running on Ubuntu Gnome desktop. The only problem I've got these days yes how to stop my system from doing the automatic auto update every time I start the system. And I seem to of lost my Orca cheap sheet. As far as keystrokes our concern. The only thing my system is really messing as Braille output. What I think I read somewhere, is that my idea i'll be using Braille TTY apparently isn't a good one because I'm running orca is this true? Or can the two pieces of software coexist?
>
> Sincerely Maurice Mines.
>
>> On Dec 2, 2020, at 22:33, Christopher Chaltain via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, and I forgot to add that you could have both Windows in a VM and run
>> Firefox with Orca.
>>
>> --
>> Christopher (AKA CJ)
>> Chaltain at Gmail
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:32 PM
>>> To: 'Brian Buhrow' <buhrow at nfbcal.org>; 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing
>>> List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: RE: [NFBCS] Which graphical screen readers are folks using under
>>> Linux/BSD/Unix?
>>>
>>> I think choices are always a good option. For example, in Linux, some web
>> pages
>>> worked better with Orca and Firefox while others worked better with Chrome
>>> and ChromeVox. Now there's some support for Chrome in Orca. Up until
>>> recently, I ran Linux on the metal with Windows in a virtual machine. This
>> works
>>> just fine as long as you give Windows and it's screen reader enough
>> memory. I
>>> used VMware until I switched to QEMU/KVM.
>>>
>>> Last summer I switched to running Windows on my metal with Linux in a
>>> VMware virtual machine. Actually, I have my laptop set up to dual boot,
>> but I
>>> typically boot up into Windows now and run Linux in a virtual machine
>> instead of
>>> the other way around. I just mention this since I may not always be of
>> much help
>>> anymore if you'll be running Linux on your metal with Windows in a VM.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christopher (AKA CJ)
>>> Chaltain at Gmail
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Brian Buhrow <buhrow at nfbcal.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:24 PM
>>>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Cc: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com>; buhrow at nfbcal.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Which graphical screen readers are folks using
>>>> under Linux/BSD/Unix?
>>>>
>>>> 	hello.  Yes, I'm familiar with many of the terminal based options, I
>>> use
>>>> YASR as my daily screen reader where it works beautifully.  I'm
>>> specifically
>>>> interested in the graphical environment, Firefox, so I can have a
>>>> fully
>>> capable
>>>> browser in my usual work environment.  right now, if I need a
>>>> graphical
>>> browser,
>>>> I have to move to Windows or my iOS device to do my browsing.  That's
>>>> been working fine for many years, but I feel it's time to improve this
>>> situation if
>>>> possible.
>>>> 	I'm also exploring the idea of running a Windows VM in my Unix
>>>> environment, just to get Office and the browsers in Windows.  Right
>>>> now,
>>> I'm
>>>> not sure which is a better choice, Orca with Firefox or a Windows VM.
>>>> Has anyone done the latter?
>>>> -thanks
>>>> -Brian
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 2,  4:13pm, Christopher Chaltain via NFBCS wrote:
>>>> } Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Which graphical screen readers are folks using
>>> under }
>>>> You have a couple of options in the terminal, but as far as a GUI
>>>> desktop
>>> is }
>>>> concerned, I'm pretty sure Orca is your only option.
>>>> }
>>>> } --
>>>> } Christopher (AKA CJ)
>>>> } Chaltain at Gmail
>>>> }
>>>> } > -----Original Message-----
>>>> } > From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Brian Buhrow
>>>> via }
>>>>> NFBCS } > Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:11 PM } > To:
>>>> nfbcs at nfbnet.org } > Cc: Brian Buhrow <buhrow at nfbcal.org> } > Subject:
>>>> [NFBCS] Which graphical screen readers are folks using under } >
>>>> Linux/BSD/Unix?
>>>> } >
>>>> } > 	hello folks.  I realize I'm addressing an extremely small
>> subset of
>>>> } folks on
>>>> } > this list, but I'm curious, of those of you working in X windows
>>>> based
>>> } >
>>>> environments with screen readers, which screen reader are you using?
>>>> } > I'm looking at trying to install and learn Orca, which says it
>>>> works
>>> with }
>>>> Gnome, } > but I'm thinking there may be other alternatives, but I
>>>> can't
>>> think of }
>>>> them at the } > moment.  So, what are folks using and has anyone run
>>> multiple
>>>> graphical } screen } > readers under X enough to be able to say which
>>>> is
>>> better
>>>> under which } > circumstance?
>>>> } >
>>>> } > Thoughts, observations, gotchas welcome!
>>>> } >
>>>> } > -thanks
>>>> } > -Brian
>>>> } >
>>>> } >
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>>>>> -- End of excerpt from Christopher Chaltain via NFBCS
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