Re: [orca-list] Console multimedia was Re: Which web browser does Orca work well with?

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Not to defend Orca / gnome or whatever but it is interesting to
discuss the pros and cons of exclusive text mode or gnome interfaces
and yet, what I love about gnu/linux in general is the different ways
we can get things done.  I find myself maybe using gnome 30 to 40
percent of the time and the remainder in the text console with a
mixture of speakup and emacspeak.  Yes, emacs is a rich environment
within its own self.  Thunderbird is nice but I still can't beat the
performance and efficiency I get from mutt in the console.  But whenit
comes to the web, I rely almost exclusively on Firefox, even with its
performance issues and Mozilla bugs <sigh>.  I love the structural
navigation features sported by Orca and other windows screen readers
too much.  Between the lack of javascript support and structural
navigation with text mode browsers, I just don't see how those can
even be viable anymore.

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:46:14PM -0400, Alex H. wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> Short answer, I still end up using firefox in those times, and any
> other sites I'd  to use (twitter, facebook, etc) I use console apps to
> update my status and check what's going on. FBCMD works great with
> facebook and twidge is a simple twitter client. All my email is in
> alpine and ther isn't really anything I don't do in the console. For
> me it works, it just depends on what you like to do and the sites you
> go to, etc. For instance, you CAN download youtube vids in a console,
> but it's really more effort than just opening firefox and finding the
> page.
>
> I almost forgot, cmus is my music player, and when I need to write
> more complex things than simple notes I do use openoffice and am
> impressed with Orca's performance with it.
>
> It's not that firefox is unusable, I just prefer the console for most things.
> Alex
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