I use Pidgin with Orca. At my last job, IRC was used very heavily, and I
was in over a dozen channels every day. I used Pidgin with Orca to
participate in these channels as well as private chats. I pretty much
just started using it, and figured out most things by going through the
menus or trying different things. I also had a few questions answered
for me on a few different lists. I've answered some questions on how to
get started with Pidgin on different lists, like Orca and Vinux-Support,
which you may find with a Google search. Definitely ask if you have any
specific questions.
On 11/04/2013 11:42 AM, Chris Brannon wrote:
Al Sten-Clanton <albert.e.sten_clanton@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Greetings!
I need an irc client recommendation. (Yes, I'm way behind the times
on this.) I know of pidgin and xchat. Can anybody tell me which, if
either, is easier to use with Speakup or Orca?
Neither of those will work with Speakup, since they're GUI clients. I
don't know how well they work with Orca, but I seem to recall that some
blind gnome folks do use pidgin. But that's vaguely-recalled
second-hand info. Take it with a block (not a grain!) of salt.
Lots of Speakup folks (including me) use irssi. It works well, if it is
configured properly. You can probably get someone in the community to share
their config file.
The default config is annoying for a screen reader user.
Sometimes I use erc, which is an IRC client distributed with Emacs. It
works beautifully with Emacspeak.
HTH,
-- Chris
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