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Curses is screen reader compatible!

JAWS might have dumped all their TUI accessibility features now that they think blind users should only use the GUI, but BRLTTY is based around the console. Orca does assume Gnome and/or a web browser, but it's no worse than usual with a console. (That is to say - I hate Orca, no matter where I'm using it.)

If you're making your own TUIs, there's a few things that curses sneaks in to make things a nicer experience. It uses the start of heading, start of text, file/group/record/unit separators from the invisible portion at the start of the ASCII table, which your sighted users can't see, but things like BRLTTY announce.

(Note: I don't use BRLTTY with an actual Braille display. I use it with espeak.)



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