Christian Schoepplein <[email protected]> wrote:
 
> One big issue is, that VoiceOver is not focusing the cursor possition 
> all the times correctly. Try opening a file with vi and navigate in the 
> file with arrow up and down to get spoken the current line. You will 
> see, that VoiceOver sometimes reads the wrong line, sometimes the line 
> above or below.
> 
> Then try to use a program like mutt, my favorite mail programm :-). 

Mine too.
> There you also notice the focusing problems but also that VoiceOver is 
> not able to track a softcursor, which is used in many of textbased 
> tools.
> 

Adding the following line to your ~/.muttrc file might help:
set braille_friendly=yes

Mutt doesn't use a soft-cursor by default anyway.

> Maybe the problems described above can be solved by changing some 
> settings for VoiceOver or for the terminal, but I've not found out what 
> needs to be changed :-(. But those both problems are the major show 
> stoppers for a good terminal support in Mac OS in my opinion :-(.

It looks nasty. I'm a very intensive terminal user and that isn't going to
change, so if anyone knows a good solution to the above, suggestions would be
welcome.

I'm planning to install Emacspeak, but that will only solve it for speech
output, not for my braille display.

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