Re: [orca-list] Use Linux as a daily driver

[Øyvind Lode <oyvind lode gmail com>]

Hi:

Thank you very much for this info.

I'm quite familiar with the shortcuts and I have read the
documentation and I really love the google approach of a fully
accessible webmail with all functionality intact.


On 27 January 2016 at 12:46, Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Standard gmail interface i.e. the one you will get on your first login to
> gmail is working fine with orca and Firefox.
> It's a good idea to read google's online help to discover their keyboard
> shortcuts to be a bit more productive than by using tab and shift+tab and
> arrow keys only but it for sure can be done. I don't know these shortcut
> keys my self but I find gmail web interface to be working great.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 27.01.2016 at 12:30 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Le 27/01/2016 12:23, Øyvind Lode a écrit :
> > > Hi all:
> > >
> > > I want to give Linux a chance as a daily driver.
> > > I have a workstation that I can use for testing out different Linux
> > > distros.
> > > If all goes well I'd love to switch to Linux as my main OS on my laptop
> > > as well.
> >
> > It's mainly possible. I do this.
> >
> > > My requirements:
> > >
> > > * Using the web is important.
> > > I particularly need to use banking and the gmail interface.
> > >
> > > * Email - see above.
> > > I use the Gmail standard view to manage my email and it works great on
> > > Windows with Firefox and NVDA.
> > > Of course I can go back to use a email client like Thunderbird if Orca
> > > does not handle the gmail interface to my satisfaction.
> > > However, I really prefer the webmail approach.
> >
> > No problem, provided that you use the legacy webmail interface, instead
> > of the modern one.
> >
> > > * Use the terminal effectively; especially remote admin work via ssh.
> > >
> > > * OCR
> > > I currently use ABBYY FineReader on Windows and it's a great solution.
> >
> > It's not great on Linux. Some tools exist, e.g. Lios, etc, related to
> > tesseract engine, but it's clearly not extraordinary.
> >
> > Why not dualboot to deal with this? With a shared folder between your
> > Win and Linux?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > > How well does Linux/Orca perform with the above requirements?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Øyvind
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