Re: [orca-list] List of Accessible apps for Linux

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Corey,

Well, in general anything written using the GTK+ toolkit over the last
few years should be reasonably accessible out of the box. Since that
is a very large list of programs I'll just list some of the more
common ones I use such as GPodder for my podcast receiver, Firefox for
the web, Totem as my media player, etc. Here is a basic list of apps I
use on a daily basis with Orca.

Audacity: This is a reasonably accessible sound editor for Linux. It
it isn't as friendly as I'd like but its usable with Orca.

File-Roller: this is commonly just called the Gnome Archive Manager.
It is a graphical front end for zip, unzip, tar, rar, unrar, etc and
allows you to build and extract archives with all the common archive
formats.

Firefox: Probably the most accessible web browser for Linux users, and
I've found Firefox 12.0 and at least Orca 3.4.2 is the best
combination for web browsing right now.

Gedit: This is a high powered text editor for Gnome with various
extentions and tools.

GPodder: This is an accessible podcast reciever for managing podcasts.
If you configure it to use Rhythmbox or Totem you can use it to
download and play all of your favorite podcasts.

Pidgin: This is a chat program that allows you to chat over MSN, AOL
Instant Messenger, Yahoo, Facebook, etc through one chat program.

Rhythmbox: This is a music player like Winamp or something like that.
If you have compatible gstreamer plugins installed you can play mp3s,
ogg, wma, and other music files, as well as create and play custom
playlists.

Totem: This is a multimedia application similar to Windows Media
Player that can play movies, music, and just about anything else
provided the correct gstreamer plugins are installed for it. Most of
the time it is simply listed as Movie Player in the apps menus.

As far as installing applications goes most people just use the
commandline program called app-get. If you know the name of the
program you want to install its usually as simple as doing
"sudo apt-get install gpodder"
to install the GPodder program. As far as installing it through a
graphical interface there are programs like Cynaptic you can use to
browse the repositories and locate packages and groups.

For example, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I use a program called
Ubuntu Software Center to browse for applications and add/remove them
through Software Center if I'm not quite sure of the package name I
need to install or uninstall. I'm not sure what Trisquel uses, but I'm
sure there should be some accessible interface that is similar to
Software Center.

Cheers!


On 6/21/12, Corey Knapp <coreytk gmail com> wrote:
> Hi I am looking for a list of Accessible applications for Linux I am using
> tresquel and I would like to know how to install applications do I use the
> update manager?  I am looking for a podcast receiver application and an
> audio and video player like VLC.  I would also be interested in other
> useful
> applications  that you can point me to thanks for your time.
>
> Corey