Hi,
To get the mysql client to print the output in vertical format, put the
--vertical option on the command line.
By the way, I think the windows version of the mysql client should also be
accessible, although I never use windows.
Perhaps you should give an example of the kind of stuff you cannot read
nicely.
HTH, Willem
On Sun, 1 May 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
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
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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
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