Using a screen reader with the AIX command line

With a screen reader, you can use Blueworx Voice Response line commands to do many administration and development tasks. If you are using a screen reader (for example, Freedom Scientific JAWS) on a Windows system, and you can telnet from that system to the Blueworx Voice Response system, you can use these line commands remotely.

Hints for using the command line effectively

• Screen readers work by noticing changes on the screen, and this can mean that old information gets read that the screen reader believes to be new. To avoid this, you can clear the screen by typing the following before any command:

  clear;

• When listing, querying, or viewing information, if the output is lengthy, all the information except for the last full screen will disappear off the screen before the screen reader has a chance to read it. To prevent this happening, type the following at the end of the command:

  | pg

  This shows you one page at a time. A colon (:) alone on a line indicates that there is more to come. To show the next page, press Enter. Keep doing this until you get to a line that says:

  (E0F)

  Press Enter to return to the command prompt.

  For example, to list the files in the current directory, type the following command and press Enter:

  clear;ls | pg