Luddite or genius? Who can say? (smile) > On Dec 26, 2014, at 9:02 AM, DD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Someone offered: > > "I wish a graphicsless mode. > > This mode allows things to get very zippy and fast. for some of us, this > graphic layer is not even necessarry. It helps with battery, and there?s more > memory for voice over related stuff. And small background tasks. That do > stuff" > > I too am blind and use terminal about 95 percent of the time. > > Iuse a dos box as a terminal lashed to the mac with a serial connection. I > have a dos screen reader on the dos box which permits excellent fine detailed > control over screen access to the mack ternimal activity. > > Most often when using a gui application I start it by using the "open" > command in the bash shell. For example using audio files. > > The web browser lynx is text only and alpine as the email client provide > access to the web based activities. Lynx also has a directory access mode > with file manipulation functionality for within the mac directory tree. > > Much of the gui functionality piggy backs on bash level applications so the > scope of what it does can be accessed in terminal. The many bash level > utilities are there for the using in scripts or as aliases or functions > defined by the user. > > Using the "say" command allows access to voiceover output if one wants it > from the mac. > > XB > y
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