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Re: [orca-list] twitter app with orca

I did actually try it last year right after the initial setup of the new accessibility features with nvda. I 
found I bug, 
but fortunately it'd already been reported a couple days before. Nice, burt actually I an't say I had 
problems with orca 
then other than things being a bit slow as is often the case compared with nvda. Last time I tried though it 
seemed to be 
a bit snappier. I've not used windows other than for a token farewell to WinXP log-in and update in April, so 
can't say if 
it's even better, but well, good deal for windows users if yes, and they won't suffer if it's the same 
experience I got 
with orca a couple or three months back when I needed to use the website instead of my usual ttytter or 
bitlbee.
Also, while a bit reload intensive, but the mobile twitter site works fine with textbased browsers like lynx. 
Pages 
usually load fast, but still, to do anything you do land on three pages on average I think, and then have to 
get back to 
where you were in your tweetstream...not exactly efficient/the site you recommend is certainly nicer than 
that. I don't 
think it works from cli-browsers though, but should recheck.
--Good reminder.
I think I prefer the regular site most of the time now, or would if I used it enough to have learned the 
shortcuts...lol
 

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:32:28AM -0700, Victor Lawrence wrote:

Yes, the main Twitter website is much more accessible now, but it
seems to work better with JAWS and NVDA than it does with Orca.  But
I'm sure that'll change as Orca improves.

Victor

On 7/17/14, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:


Also
 the main twitter website got much better about a year ago, maybe less
when they put on dedicated staff for accessibility work.
There are keyborard shortcuts that work nicely with orca, but I still find
any of these social sites slow and painful to
use, little to do with accessibility much of the time, but one could be much
faster for some things with a mouse.
I"m looking in to some other twitter clients.
it appears that the twitux program has been updated, but a quick check was
not geting me to any thing accessible to auth
the client. Could be my connection, and checking on other probably more
powerful options. Going to work for now this is on
hold, and BTW
Sorry about a probably mis information. Corebird is not a mozi program it
appears from a quick discription I read, so
maybe it's something.
A lot of these clients were just not very powerful last I checked though,
you could read and rt, but some were missing
very basic features, and that's not even talking about what's
accessible/usable with speech.
More later.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:04:38AM -0700, Victor
Lawrence wrote:

Hi all:

Depending on how much you use Twitter, you might want to try an
accessible version of Twitter called easychirp.  In essence, it's just
a more accessible user-friendly version of the Twitter website.

If you visit the website, I think you'll find everything to be
self-explanatory.  It's good enough for me right now.

http://www.easychirp.com

On my Windows 7 computer, I have a client called The Qube.  It's the
successor to a client called Qwitter.  I wish the developers of The
Qube would create an accessible version for Linux.

Victor

On 7/17/14, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:

Sure, but honestly, even instantbird, the most well built of the gecko
based
chat clients I guess does not give good
usability as there was no comfortable way to orient oneself in the
displayed
tweets. I suppose this could be fixed
somehow, if not any other way by giving a vetical list view as an
alternative, and if it could be fixed in anyway for one
of these programs it could easily be fixed for them all I would think.

For now I can hardly justify installig anythig other than thunderbird
which
I already have. It's rock solid stable of
course. Instantbird has promise, but even after the five years I've
known
about it there are really no new extensions for
it, so functionality is not exactly robust. It's fine for simple chat
on
services like facebook, , yahoo g-talk..., but
againk, so is thunderbird. Not really logical to run a separate client
as
switching to another window is no easier than
switching to a chat tab in t-bird, or chat window if one is a tab
hater.
I've not tried instantbird since sometime last fall I guess, so if
anything's been added to it, or if corebird is ow
getting more love, well, let us know about it someone. I won't bother
to
install these programs until I hear of something
new and interesting.
I really want pidgin to get a working plugin again as it is certainly
comfortable to use. The twitgen plugin, the actual
package may have been called soething else, or maybe it got put in to
main
pidgin code/don't remember, did not do
everything one could want, but was fine for replies, rt's and opening
URLs
linked to in tweets, no need to remember codes
either.
I can't remember the name of the last one I built from source that
worked
once after each authorization, but it also had a
couple of nice features as I recall.
There was a guy I know on twitter who was going to port a pythonbsed
windows-only client to Linux sometime, but have not
heard anythig about that in half a year. I'll try and find out if
that's
still likely to happen, or if there are problems
on windows taking up all of the devs time.
I don't even know if there are any inaccessible twitter clients for
Linux
GUIs that are worth using.


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:03:56AM -0500, Nolan Darilek wrote:

I also had reasonable luck with Corebird. Basic Twitter participation
worked, but tabbing into tweets broke. Things also got a bit unstable
after
a while. Might be worth a look and chat with the developers about
fixing
the
relatively minor access issues I encountered.

On 7/17/2014 10:24 AM, B. Henry wrote:

No, no twitter clients.
Gwibber can be used, or at least could with precise and vinux4, but
it's
less than ideal.
Another solution that's not great if you get lots of tweets is to set
up
twitter with thunderbird's native chat
functionality, and instantbird is similar but a chat only mozilla
application.
Many of us use ttytter. It is commandline, but can be run well from a
gnome or other terminal emulator and has some
extensions that work nicely in the gui. I use it in vt consoles
myself
however. It takes a bit of getting used to as you
use two character codes to work with tweets, i.e. you have a tweet
labeled as e5. They go in order from a0 from the time
you log-in to a session. So to retweet you do something like
/rt e5
or to reply
/reply e5 Are you crazy? I'd never use anything but #ttytter!
Actually, I've set up t-bird, but seldom use it as tweets display in
a
screenreader unfriendly grid and I get more than a
thousand a day. I also use bitlbee for twitter, but it doesn't do as
much
as ttytter which can do almost anything that is
possible with twitter and similar services. Bitlbee lets you rt,
reply
and a couple other things, but with ttytter you can
open urls directly, do easy searches and get tweets for a specific
user,
etc.
All the pidgin pluggg-ins for twitter were broken last I tried, and I
even built some from source. One kind of almost
worked, at least let me log-in once, but then would not after
restarting
pidgin, so I'm sure some one who studied the
twitter api mess could fix one or more of the plug-ins but guess no
one
cared enough. On the other hand, it's not that
easy  dealing with twitter I guess from what I hear.
HTH
--
B.H.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 04:20:47PM +0800, Amir wrote:

Hi,
i want to use twitter with orca. i don't want to open and use the
site
twitter but want to use the twitter software. i tried thunderbird
but
can't
read the tweets even though i've connected the account. any
suggestions?
thanks!

On 7/16/2014 4:19 PM, lJason White wrote:

Hello all,

How do I convert a LibreOffice Impress document to an easier to
read
format
such as HTML, or read it within LibreOffice?

LibreOffice allows me to export it in various format, all designed
for
presentations - HTML and even plain text aren't offered.

The default view in LibreOffice doesn't seem to give me access to
the
content
under Orca 3.12.1 and LibreOffice 4.2.5.

To make Impress presentations accessible, it used to be necessary
to
run the
Presenter Console, which is now, apparently, included in
LibreOffice.
According to my Web searches, the presenter console appears if you
have
a
second monitor attached to the machine, which is not feasible here.

Suggestions welcome. This should have a simple answer but I haven't
found it.

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orca-list gnome org
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Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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