debian stream browser accessibility
I have gnome-orca installed and when I use the X environment I have speech
turned on. I tried tunapie earlier and found it totally useless with
orca; the only thing orca ever said when tunapie was running was "panel"
when I hit the left and right arrow keys, I couldn't get it to do anything
else. No, not everybody uses a mouse. Some of us use track balls, and
some of us only use keyboards. So tunapie went the remove purge route on
aptitude once its uselessness was firmly established. Next I tried
streamtuner. I haven't yet sent it to remove purge yet because I can hear
some controls as I move around the screen with arrow keys and some of them
appear to work when I hit the space bar. So this package may ultimately
prove useable. Time permitting, I'll figure out how to get streamtuner to
go out on the internet and either get to the directories or download
available directories so I can browse them. That hasn't yet happened
though. Another completely useless package is pyching from an
accessibility point of view. I ended up writing an iching package using
vbnc that works with accessibility though in the console mode. If that
program is ever made into a g.u.i. program also capable of working with
the console it will need sighted programmers to do that. The generator
uses a six coin method for casting hexagrams because I found information
on that method that was both complete enough and accessible enough for me
to use it as opposed to any of the three coin methods. The reason I did
that was in protest to pyching and its inaccessibility. I learned quite a
lot doing it on how to handle console-based visualbasic programming as a
result too, so there were side benefits.
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