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Re: MATE Terminal Emulator Accessibility: it won't let users scroll upwards to review



Sorry. I am new to using orca myself, but I thought that it would be understood when I said orca plus quoted letters that I met you press the orca key and the quoted letters. My question was asking if the orca key plus for example the letter U is being used when navigating the terminal. From my minimal understanding this is called flat review and is a way to navigate text on a granular level. I don’t see any bugs with the terminal while doing this, but I am definitely not saying there isn’t one. Can you better explain where the bug is or how to re-create it?

By the way.. when people say something like orca, Jaws or voiceover plus a letter, especially in quotes how I did, then you can be reasonably sure they mean to press the orca key or given screenreader key plus the letter.


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~ Helen Keller

On Apr 22, 2021, at 10:02 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:


What do you mean, Jonesy?  I am supposed to run orca with the command like this:

orca "" -u

Is that what you are trying to say?

I wish people wouldn't speak unclearly, it's far to common that, especially developers, speak in a shorthand which assumes people already know the answers, so they write in some shorthand only known to the knowledgeable, not the general public who might just be good at following clear instructions.

Regards,

David

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:17 AM Jonesy Cee <jones.cee7@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is this referring to using orca plus “” and”u”? I’m using this and it does navigate up and down in mate terminal using Ubuntu.

“ Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” 
~ Helen Keller

On Apr 21, 2021, at 2:25 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:


I received this on the SLINT mail list. I've removed personality identifying parts of the email, if any person here needs to email that person, contact me and I'll relay the request. It shouldn't be necessity, he just identifies an accessibility problem in mate-terminal.  MATE Terminal Emulator Accessibility: it won't let users scroll upwards to review.


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Oh and to answer your question for why I want contracted braille in Console when I am a Graphical user. Its because the MATE Terminal Emulator is not always as accessible as I need it to be. So if I need to install something, or just reading slint-doc, it often won't let me scroll upwards to read whatever it just spoke, or to see how a file name is spelled for refference etc.

MATE Terminal is ok, so long as I don't need finite navigation. But if I want to navigate through lists etc, it doesn't always work. So then I need to open up the Console.

Unless there is a way to make MATE Terminal Emulator more accessible, but I don't think there is.

Again thank you so much, I really appreciate the help and I've finally got contracted braille in Console now.

UNQUOTE 

I'm irritated by this behavior of MATE Terminal Emulator also but I only have low vision not blindness using a sensory (dot making) Braille interface.

Regards,

David

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