[mac4theblind] Braille and terminal

From: John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:18:23 -0400

Hi guys,
   I am pasting a message I received this morning from someone who is seeking 
specific help.  If anyone can answer his questions, please write me off list so 
I can respond to him.

Thanks


Hello John !

I am not blind but I have a question to understand some things better. I do 
many things in terminal and found out that I am very productive (often more 
then to use a GUI). At the moment I use tools like Mutt for email, Lynx to 
browse the web, vim to write text including TeX and LaTeX, gpg to encrypt 
emails, mcabber to chat using jabber including the off the record feature and 
so on. As I wrote a blog post in my static blog about to build this tools from 
source I came across a question. I see in Lynx in the terminal window where is 
text, where is a heading and where is a block of shell commands or some source 
code. But how works that or better how I have to write it, that blind people 
could use it in Lynx and with a braille display (don't know the correct 
englisch translation for it) ? How works it to translate a text from a terminal 
window to braille ? I know there was a function in Tiger which provides the 
option to select text in a terminal window over the keyboard - is this function 
still available in Mountain Lion ?

I know that there is VoiceOver and it is great but I find there are so many 
great open source tools which people should use.

I am happy if you could answer my questions.

Regards,


Christoph



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