[BRLTTY] Clickable links, virtual consoles etc. (Was Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux)

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dear Nicolas,

Many thanks for your tips and sharing your experience, I find it very
interesting and inspiring.

To say a bit more about what I am after, I think  I'd like to continue
reading my e-mails with Mutt but with the ability, ifit turns out to be
necessary, to get a link opened in Firefox as sfiwtly as possible.

Of course if that could be achieved from a virtual console (basically an
action on a link opens it in Firefox and the screen goes to the GUI)
that would probably be my ideal, but I think this may be a bit too high
an expectation, so I think I would not mind being able to do the same
from a terminal run in graphic mode.

I don't know, though, if that is possible and how to reach that. For
instance I don't know whether this is something ordinary sighted users
can achieve, or if that would be a challenge even for them.

I guess one part of the quesiton is to know whether there is an
interface between programs and terminals to let program tell to
terminals that such and such zone is clickable, and of which Mutt would
already be taking advantage when the terminal supports it.

Coming back to your workflow, Nicolas, I completely share the feeling
that the console is way more efficient even than graphical terminals at
the moment, because the responsiveness in virtual consoles is better,
for instance.

Still a few questions I'd like to ask you. What is the size of
yourterminals? Do you stick to the classical 25x80 scheme or do you use
way bigger terminals? I am asking because onmy side I continue to use
80x25 but this sometimes creates problems I do not have a good solution
for. The bigger one, I think, is copy/pasting links displayed by lynx. I
do have the URLs displayed at the bottomof the screen, but if the link
is longer than the screen width, then it because quite annoying. Usually
I use E to edit the link, copy the beginning of the link to BRLTTY's
clipboard, delete it so that the following part fits on the screen, add
this part to BRLTTY's clipboard etc. which can be quite tedious and
error-prone. If anybody has a better way of doing that in the virtual
console and with lynx I am super interested to hear about it.

The other question for you Nicolas is could you please elaborate the
workflow you mentionned to transfer links from Linux to iOS? I do have
an iPhone, too, and I find transferring links cumbersome. Usually I send
them to myself by e-mail but I do not find this very convenient.

And of course there is also the question of how to efficiently share
passwords between Linux and iOS, especially given that in text-mode we
do not have (asfar as I know) the possibility tu seu the web browser
based plugins to interact with the mainstream password managers.

Best wishes,

Seb.