No, Orca can be used in a command line, also called a terminal. The roblem comes in where Orca doesn't run as root, but as a standard user, which does not give you access to many administrative tasks.
thanks Nimer J Nimer M. Jaber The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender via reply e-mail, and delete the material from any computer. Website: http://www.empowertheblind.org Phone: (720) (251-4530) Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Oh Ken, you disappoint me.I was more and more convinced that Orca could be used well at least with some apps, but now I hear that in order to access the command line I need to use another screen reader.Well, this is not needed at all under Windows where I can use Jaws with apps with a GUI and with apps that run in a command line, and I even use Linux with Jaws by SecureCRT.Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:33 AM Subject: RE: Creating an Operating System with speech includedThe problem is your trying to do everything with Orca. Orca is a windowenvironment what your trying to do is real console stuff. If you want touse the console use a console screen reader and that's speakup. If youdon't have a hardware synth then you're probably going to need to shell out for the IBM Viavoice or what ever they are calling it now something like tts but its 45$ so not too bad. Or you could go with Espeak and speakup whichis all free. Those will give you the root access your looking__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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