Hi Karen, Yes, VoiceOver works within the Mac Terminal just fine.
Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 14, 2019, at 07:46, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: Hi Janine, Again, I likely should have started my own thread rather than ask my question here. I know that Mac os has its own terminal. My wondering was if Voiceover works at least in a basic level in that terminal, meaning no other screen reader is needful. as I am not a windows user at all that aspect is not really important. Although I have come across more than one article suggesting this might be the end of Linux distributions all together. Kare On Tue, 14 May 2019, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: > Hi, Karen: > > This isn't for Voice Over and the Apple OS X environment. It's for > Windows 10, so is relevant here because of Bootcamp. > > You would use whichever screen reader you use with Windows on Bootcamp, > e.g. NVDA. > > At least this is how it's worked for the past 3 years since Microsoft > first introduced a Linux subsystem in Windows 10. Perhaps the fact that > the new approach Microsoft announced relies on a virtual machine might > indeed take Windows screen readers out of the picture, and one will need > something native to Linux like Fenrir probably. Time will tell, I > suppose. > > Best, > > Janina > > Karen Lewellen writes: >> Does voiceover remain consistent when using Linux in this way? >> Karen >> >> >> >> On Mon, 13 May 2019, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: >> >>> Announced last week and causing quite a stir in certain circles, >>> Microsoft is tightly integrating a Linux subsystem into Windows 10 for >>> shipment later this year. >>> >>> https://www.pcworld.com/article/3394680/how-windows-and-chrome-quietly-made-2019-the-year-of-linux-on-the-desktop.html >>> >>> >>> Oh, and every Chromebook will also support Linux (plus Android) out of >>> the box, according to Google's announcement last week. >>> >>> We all know, of course, that home brew will let us run all kinds of >>> Linux in the Mac Terminal already. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Janina >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Janina Sajka >>> >>> Linux Foundation Fellow >>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org >>> >>> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) >>> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>> Visionaries list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >>> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners >>> or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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