Hello, I’m not sure if this would work. I started taking a database class for college and most of the things that we do now I am unable to read unless they are copied into the notepad and pasted into a word document so I was just curious if there was anything for Linux.
Ashley Breger > On May 1, 2022, at 3:44 PM, Linux for blind general discussion > <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > > >> >> On May 1, 2022, at 12:11,Ashley Breger wrote: >> >> ... I am looking for an accessible SQL program to use on my Slint system. ... > > tl;dr - no real answers, but some questions and ideas... > > I'm assuming that you're referring to SQL, a language for interacting with > relational databases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL). If not, please > indicate what else you have in mind. > > There are lots of databases that support SQL, though the features and > syntactic details can vary a lot. However, most of them have a command-line > interface which you can use to submit SQL queries, etc. So, they should be > pretty blind-accessible, at least on the input side. > > Output is another question. Because relational databases operate on > rectangular tables, they tend to use text-based formatting to delineate rows > and columns. So, for example, you might get long strings of spaces and > vertical bars such as this: > > | foo | bar | baz | > | 123 | 456 | 789 | > | 1234 | 4567 | 7890 | > > Unless you have a screen reader that can let you navigate this sort of thing, > finding the relevant table cells could be pretty tedious. > > Of course, with a sufficiently clever query, you can (sometimes :-) pare down > the output to just a few cells. I do something like this when writing > debugging trace code, to avoid having to dig through large piles of output. > > One thought I have had, from time to time, is that it would be nice to have > tooling that transforms various tabular output formats into HTML tables. > This could let the user employ screen reader navigation to crawl around the > table. However, I have no idea if anything of this sort exists. > > Assuming that there are some blind-accessible spreadsheet programs, you might > be able to dump the tabular output into a file (e.g. CSV) and then examine it > using the spreadsheet program. Might this work for you? > > - Rich Morin > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
