Re: [orca-list] App recommendations

[Reece O'Bryan <reeceobryan icloud com>]

Can anyone recommend accessible options for the following:

—Audio and Video Player

-Firewall and Antinalware: considering App armor, fire jail, ufw

-Browser: would like Brave and Firefox

-An app to monitor processes and applications: in the late 2000’s I used an app called conky. It displayed information about the machine, running processes and anything else you wanted on the desktop. Is there something similar that is accessible with orca?

-Torrent client: from what I have read, transmission seems good.

-Backups: Timeshift(?)

-password manager.

Somewhat unrelated, but can I choose to do a minimal installation instead of complete installation and just install all of these myself on Ubuntu? Worried that a minimal install may miss installing something that is needed for orca to run properly.

Thank you,

-Reece O’Bryan

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On Mar 18, 2021, at 2:45 PM, dileepa.tissera dileepa.tissera <audiogamer2004 gmail com> wrote:



Hello Reece,

 

First off, you’re welcome for the recommendations, I’m personally glad you got the chance to use apps you are familiar with.

Second off, to answer your questions, or some of them:

If you’re not going to absolutely abuse the terminal, Orca is perfectly fine for everyday tasks. A console screen reader like Fenrir comes in handy when you wanna do really advanced tasks, and need a good eye, no pun intended, on what’s going on.

For a bit torrent client, you could try Transmission, it comes with Gnome I believe, I don’t know if it’s accessible though. I have no idea about p2p and bitcoin wallets.

To return to the previous question, you can use Orca both in and out of the terminal without a problem, but if you need to switch, without typing a command, I believe  you can’t. To enable or disable Fenrir when in a terminal, Fenrir should do the job, don’t know if it has to be ran as sudoer, but I’m inclined to believe so.

These are just some answers that I got from experience, feel free to correct me and add stuff where needed.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Best regards.

Francisco.

From: Reece O'Bryan via orca-list
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:11 PM
To: Vojtěch Polášek
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] App recommendations

 

I really, really appreciate all of the recommendations. Some of these were applications that I have used around a decade ago when I still had my vision. Glad to see I will be able to use some of the things I am familiar with again. I have a few more questions.

 

I actually will want access to the terminal.. so do I use orca for everything not in console?

 

Any recommendations for P2P client, torrent client and Bitcoin wallet that’s accessible?

 

Is it possible to seamlessly switch between these different screenreaders? Example to only use Fenrir in terminal and orca when out?

Lastly, the distro I am going to be using seems like it would be really accessible with all of the keyboard shortcuts it has, it is called pop OS. However, will orca override and overall the keyboard shortcuts already in place of the operating system?

Thank you,

-Reece O’Bryan

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1645 Parkway, Sevierville, TN 37862

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On Mar 18, 2021, at 3:28 AM, Vojtěch Polášek via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:

Fenrir.