I’m excited to announce the first public release of Terminal Access for NVDA: an add-on focused on improving the NVDA experience when working in terminal/console applications.

@lerven It's made for power users like you. Feedback is welcome. I already know of couple of issues. It's one of those things where I had to release before I went crazy.

@ppatel Wil this do anything to ease the issue NVDA has with stalling/hanging when terminal becomes large?

@lerven Yes. It should. I've got a bit of a cacheing system going on. You can also put it in quiet mode while the screen is updating.

@ppatel @lerven Does this improve access to WSL through the terminal?

@ysotomayor @lerven Yes. It should improve support for WSL and WSL2. I suspect WSl2 is better supported.

@ppatel @lerven Oh! Perfect! An excuse to play with WSL instead of doing actual work! Thank you!

I’m excited to announce the first public release of Terminal Access for NVDA: an add-on focused on improving the NVDA experience when working in terminal/console applications. Inspired by TDSR and Speakup, there's quite a bit of functionality here. I welcome contributions. Issues and PRs welcome. Lots of testing needed.

Open issues on the Github repo at: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA

Get it here: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/latest

#accessibility #NVDASR

@ppatel

I'm sure there are some people on here who know wtf you're talking about.

I'm not one of them.

I’m excited to announce the first public release of Terminal Access for NVDA: an add-on focused on improving the NVDA experience when working in terminal/console applications. Inspired by TDSR and Speakup, there's quite a bit of functionality here. I welcome contributions. Issues and PRs welcome. Lots of testing needed.

Open issues on the Github repo at: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA

Get it here: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/latest

#accessibility #NVDASR

@Tamasg @ppatel I'm curious, VIM is mentioned in the list of modified profiles but it seems to just quiet the status line. Is using VIM properly actually feasible with the addon as it currently stands? There's a number of issues that may make it tricky, most notably that a lot of navigation doesn't necessarily use the arrow keys, so I'm curious

@zersiax @Tamasg I believe it should work. Someone will need to test it though. I'm not a huge fan so I'm sort of avoiding testing it. Most of the reading is done through the review cursor, which avoids issues with terminals and system cursors.

@ppatel @Tamasg I'll give it a look later. I'm no vim expert myself but can probably at least find a cheatsheet to figure out the basics.
One thing I do know is that it has the insert and command mode, which I believe is conveyed through the status bar. That bit, you MAY not want to silence as it's a bit of a thing to figure out otherwise Maybe that was already taken care of, will check and report back later

I’m excited to announce the first public release of Terminal Access for NVDA: an add-on focused on improving the NVDA experience when working in terminal/console applications. Inspired by TDSR and Speakup, there's quite a bit of functionality here. I welcome contributions. Issues and PRs welcome. Lots of testing needed.

Open issues on the Github repo at: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA

Get it here: https://github.com/PratikP1/Terminal-Access-for-NVDA/releases/latest

#accessibility #NVDASR

@ppatel Can you please explain why this seems to duplicate a lot of NVDA's settings in the add-on itself? This is something we very badly need in general, I think, NVDA's terminal support is so shit it can't even use ed properly, but NVDA already has 4 levels of punctuation, indentation reporting, character code announcements, word/character nav, etc. What does this do different?

@TheQuinbox @ppatel My thoughts exactly. There are some interesting features (on paper at least - haven't tested this properly yet) but there is certainly a lot of overlap.