Re: [orca-list] quick start with orca

[chrys linux-a11y org]

Howdy,

Yea sonar linux and vinux are the best IMO because those are preconfigured best for accessibility  and give 
you the most recent  accessibility  stack and screenreader  stuff.

Ias Desktop  you should consider using gnome or Mate since those are really accessible. If you are looking 
for new software you should prefer software that is using GTK. That Applikations mostly accessibile out of 
the box.

You can find a quickstart guide or better all documentation  for orca here:
https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility


Firefox, Thunderbird  and libreoffice  are really accessibile at all. Some issues here and there (but in what 
system they are not lol).
For playing music i use "audacious" here.
For sound editing i prefer audacity and sox.
For encoding or convert audio or video i use ffmpeg.
Most people using pidgin for chatting and IM. 
For programming  and stuff i use vim and a bit of gedit.
What else is needed depends on your personal requirements  in first place. 

Just my two cents

Cheers chrys  

Am Mi. Mär. 29 22:14:10 2017 GMT+0200 schrieb Don Raikes:
> Actually, I am thinking about using vinux, although I wouldn't mind usind debian.  
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL [mailto:jpmengual hypra fr] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:29 PM
> To: Don Raikes; orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] quick start with orca
>
> Hi,
>
> What distro do you plan to use? If you use Debian, you'll easily can get same bindings in Orca than Jaws. 
> Otherwise, the beginning guide for GNOME explains all is needed to start with Orca (bindings, etc). It 
> depends on what you are ready to learn, or not, given your Windows experience.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Le 29/03/2017 à 18:06, Don Raikes a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> >  
> >
> > I have been trolling around the finges of the Linux/gnome/orca world 
> > for a number of years now, but now I am interested in making my 
> > primary operating system Linux on at least one of my computers.
> >
> >  
> >
> > As such I need a quick-start guide to using orca.  I need to know the 
> > best most-efficient way to use orca with firefox, thunderbird, 
> > libraoffice etc the major productivity tools available.
> >
> >  
> >
> > I am coming from a windows/jaws background (since windows 3.1 and jaws
> > 2.0 back in the early 1990’s).
> >
> >  
> >
> > Any tips / tricks/ pointers are greatfully accepted.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Tia,
> >
> > Don
> >
> >  
> >
> > --
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