I use Emacs in the terminal with Orca all the time. I start it
with the -nw command line option for no windowing system, then go
from there. I also use the EVIL package to give it VIM like
bindings, which I prefer.
Hello.
In order to access the Emacs's menubar you would need to use
Orca along with Emacspeak, since the later cannot read these
graphical components. However, this is awkward and in fact, goes
against the philosophy of Emacs/Emacspeak. When using Emacs you
don't need to have access to the menubar, toolbar and other
analogous visual resources (in fact, even sighted Emacs advanced
users do not use them), because Emacs is originally a terminal
editor and absolutely everything is accessible by keybindings
(keystrokes in the Emacs terminology). By the way, this
characteristic (the independence from a GUI) is one of the main
advantages that Emacs/Emacspeak offers to blind users.
I suggest that you start studying the main keybindings of
Emacs/Emacspeak in order to get more acquainted with these
concepts. With a bit of pracctice you will understand why you do
not need to use the menubar. I recomend that you start with the
Emacs tutorial. For such, open Emacs and press C-h t. In the
Emacs terminology, C means Control. The keybinding C-h t, means
press Control and h simultaneously, drops the combination and
press t. This will open the Emacs tutorial. Follow the steps in
this tutorial and you will learn the main keybindings for
reading text, switching between buffers, windows and so forth.
One thing very useful in the Emacs is its capability of being
self explanatory. In another words you can use Emacs for
learning about Emacs. For example, there are several keybindings
that describe other keybindings. Press C-h k and after, press
C-h t. You will hear Emacspeak reading a help content open in a
separate window. In this case, Emacs will describe the
keybinding C-h t (the same that I indicated previously to open
the Emacs tutorial).
Best regards.
Alan Ghelardi
On 07/10/2017 10:05 AM, ronak shah
wrote:
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From: "ronak shah" <
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Date: Jul 10, 2017 9:22 AM
Subject: Emacspeak
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <
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Cc:
Hi all
I have started to use Emacs with emacspeak but am not able
to navigate afficiantly
For eg
The menu bar is not accessible with emacspeak and hence I am
a little stranded in a no man's land.
Please let me know how to get use to it
also is VIM better with orca because I would like to use 1
screen reader and 1 editer for everything preferablely
Anything on ide will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Kind regards
Ron
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