If you have a Windows machine handy, I suggest you grab the NVDA screen reader (https://www.nvaccess.org/ https://www.nvaccess.org/) and try it out with the Win

If you have a Windows machine handy, I suggest you grab the NVDA screen reader (https://www.nvaccess.org/ https://www.nvaccess.org/) and try it out with the Windows console to get a feel for what a good screen reader plus terminal experience is like. I understand that the Orca screen reader for GNOME also has good terminal support, and I think JAWS for Windows does as well, but I'm more familiar with how it works with NVDA. Here's how you move around the terminal with NVDA. For all of these commands, you need a keyboard with a numeric keypad, and NumLock should be off. I believe there are alternatives for laptops without a keypad, but I'm only familiar with the desktop layout. To read the current line, press numpad 8. To move to the previous line, press numpad 7. Next line is numpad 9. The same pattern applies for words (numpad 4-6) and characters (numpad 1-3). Incidentally, on Mac, VoiceOver's terminal support is crappy enough that my friend Tyler Spivey wrote his own screen reader for the terminal environment, called tdsr [1]. [1]: https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr