yasr - (Yet Another Screen Reader) is an attempt at a lightweight, portable screen reader.

       Michael P. Gorse <mgorse@users.sourceforge.net>

                                                 16 August 2002                                          YASR(1)

yasr  is a lightweight, portable screen reader. It works by opening a shell in a pty and intercepting all
       user input/output, maintaining a window of what should be on the screen by looking at the codes and  text
       sent to the screen. It only requires that the user be able to access the text to speech (TTS) device.

       yasr  was  originally designed in conjunction with a Speak-out TTS device.  Yasr also attempts to support
       DEC-Talk, DoubleTalk, Apollo, and ViaVoice Outloud,  but more work is needed to get these to work  fully.
       It may be able to work with Emacspeak servers, however.

       Currently  yasr has two sets of keymaps, one for "review mode" (ie, reviewing the screen) and one for the
       standard mode.  Keys defined for the standard mode are checked irrespective of whether  the  user  is  in
       review mode or standard mode, but the review mode keymap is checked first in the former case.

/usr/local/share/yasr/yasr.confyasr configuration file.

Reviewmodespacebar
              Say review cursor position.

       ^      Move to the first character on the line, and say word.

       $      Move to the last character on the line, and say word.

       b      Say previous character.

       c      Say character.

       d      Say next character.

       e      Read from cursor to bottom of screen.

       f      Search for text on the screen.

       <      Search from cursor to top of screen, using the previously-entered search string.

       >      Search from cursor to bottom of screen, using the previously-entered search string.

       k      Move up a line and read the line (currently same as up arrow).

       l      Say current line.

       m      Move down a line and read the line (currently same as down arrow).

       n      Bypass (send directly to the application).

       t      Read from top to cursor.

       w      Read entire screen.

       z      Move to beginning of previous word and read the word.

       x      Move to beginning of next word and read the word.

       uparrow
              Move to previous line and read the line.

       downarrow
              Move to next line and read the line.

       leftarrow
              Move back one character and read the character.

       rightarrow
              Move ahead one character and read the character.

       (      Go to previous paragraph.

       )      Go to next paragraph.

       alt-i  Reinitialize the synthesizer.

       `      Read the ASCII value of the current character.

              Standardmode These keys also work in review mode.

       ctrl-a Say application cursor position.

       ctrl-l Say line.

       ctrl-n Bypass.

       ctrl-x Flush speech buffer.

       alt-b  Say previous character.

       alt-c  Say chracter.

       alt-d  Say word.

       alt-e  Read cursor to bottom of screen.

       alt-k  Say previous line.

       alt-l  Read line.

       alt-m  Read next line.

       alt-r  Toggle review mode.

       alt-t  Read top to cursor.

       alt-w  Read entire screen.

       alt-x  Silence  speech. Like ctrl-x but will continue to be silent until a key is pressed (pressing alt-x
              a second time will start speech again, for example).

       ctrl-alt-k
              Keyboard wizard. Allows the user to move, copy, or delete keybindings from within yasr.ctrl-alt-o
              Options menu. Allows the user to set options from within yasr.ctrl-alt-s
              Save configuration to disk.

       alt-enter
              Disable yasr.Yasr is silent and ignores all keys when disabled. Press again to re-enable.   Note:
              this key is defined in the [options] section as "DisableKey"

       yasr - (Yet Another Screen Reader) is an attempt at a lightweight, portable screen reader.

-Cconfigfile
              The configuration file that yasr should use.

       -c     Attempts  to emulate bash's -c command. It runs /bin/sh, passing it the arguments that were passed
              to yasr.-ssynthesizer
              The TTS synthesizer to use in conjunction with yasr.-psynthesizerport
              The port that the TTS synthesizer is connected to.

       yasr will also fork and exec a program to run, if it (and any optional command line arguments  it  needs)
       are given as the last command line arguments.

yasr [ -Cconfigfile ] [ -c ] [ -ssynthesizer ] [ -psynthesizerport ] [ program arg1 arg2 ... argN ]