Interfacing with Orca to read terminal output

[Nick Schermer]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Sean Normoyle <stn825 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
> As some are aware I am working with a couple other senior CS majors on a
> project to read the text from the terminal out loud via Orca, per the specs
> listed under "Terminal" on the 4.10 accessibility
> roadmap: http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap/accessibility
> I'm working on interfacing with Orca, a piece of software I've never used
> before. I'm just wondering if anyone knows how to do this or has any advice.
> Our program needs to be able to send Orca a string that will be read aloud.

You mean a program running in the terminal or an extension of the
terminal application? The first is handled by a script in Orca (Joanie
knows how that works, but I guess it's more or less a dup of
gnome-terminal), for the latter you probably need to create your own
event through at-spi I think.

Nick