Hi Ashley, in Slint you have mariadb (drop-in replacement of mysql, commands are named mysql-something) and sqlite3.
Both are command line applications. You can always get the output as text files then read it in a text editor like pluma or geany or in the command any text editor. Cheers Didier Spaier Le 01/05/2022 à 21:57, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
