From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay0-omc2-s18.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.154]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HP82j-0000Wt-00 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:07:46 -0500 Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.152.14]) by bay0-omc2-s18.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:07:15 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:07:15 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 71.111.71.248 by BAY141-DAV4.phx.gbl with DAV; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:07:13 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [71.111.71.248] X-Originating-Email: [z_kline@hotmail.com] X-Sender: z_kline@hotmail.com From: "Zachary Kline" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000901c76114$cc57e120$0301a8c0@cleverson> Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:06:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Mar 2007 02:07:15.0469 (UTC) FILETIME=[7E0B9BD0:01C76126] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:07:46 -0000 Hiya, I agree with this idea. It's quite important--even if all the programs we're likely to ever run at the console are text-mode programs, we still want to know what works well, what's a bit more difficult, etc. As for my experience, I like Nano or Emacs in combination with Emacspeak for text editing. I use nail for email reading--yes, it's a command line program, but it's a very nice command-line program. Web browsing, again, I turn to Emacspeak and W3: I don't really like using Lynx if I can avoid it. Other than that, due to the unfortunate lack of support in Alsa for my sound card, I can't play audio or record it very well. Hope this helps, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cleverson" To: "Speakup" Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:00 PM Subject: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide Hello, I think many new Speakup users would apreciate a kind of applications list or guide reference, containing suggestions of applications for several different tasks. As an example, for me not to have to experience a lot of programs until I discover what works fine with Speakup, or what people in general consider as friendly for blind users, I could simply access a Wiki, read what people say about what program to use to perform a given task, from reading mail til browsing the web, reading rss, editing / processing text, managing files, recording / hearing / editing audio, etc etc. And after I was tried some programs I would put my own experience in this wiki... Is there already anything like this? Cheers, Cleverson "Be realistic; ask for the impossible." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup