Dear R-help, just for the record a summary of responses to my problem: > On 04/05/2010 9:41 AM, Rainer Scheuchenpflug wrote: > a student of mine tries to use the Windows-Rconsole with screen > reading software (she is blind), and cannot access the command line (Menus are ok).
- Duncan Murdoch (murdoch.dun...@gmail.com) suggested as preliminary workaround to run RTerm in a command window, to run R from within EMACS or to try out the JGR front end (see p. 9 of http://stat-computing.org/newsletter/issues/scgn-16-2.pdf). Within the next days he kindly collaborated with the manufacturer of our screen reader and implemented a blinking cursor in the R-GUI. My student installed R-devel 2.12.0 as suggested and is happily using R with her screenreader. - Brett Presnell (presn...@stat.ufl.edu) suggested R + Emacs + ESS + Emacspeak <URL:http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/> - Roopakshi Pathania [r_akshi_...@yahoo.com] suggested using R in Linux, where 2 screen readers (Speakup for text console, Orca for Gnome) are available. For Windows she suggested NVDA (a free and open screen reader, http://www.nvda-project.org/). Backchannel she also mentioned an event for visually impaired students interested in Science and Math: http://www.icchp.org/programme/summeruniversity. I' like to thank everybody for their valuable input, and especially Mr. Murdoch for his programming efforts which solved the problem. You are terrific! Kind regards, Rainer Dr. Rainer Scheuchenpflug Lehrstuhl für Psychologie III Röntgenring 11 97070 Würzburg Tel: 0931-31-82185 Fax: 0931-31-82616 Mail: scheuchenpf...@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de Web: http://www.izvw.de ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
