Kyle, Thank you for the recommendations. Kyle wrote: > I would recommend speech-dispatcher and Orca. You can install the MATE > desktop and the lightdm gtk greeter, drop in a config file that I can send > and run a couple of gsettings commands, and his system will speak. There is > a repository I believe for RHVoice, which ships with a speech-dispatcher > module. RHVoice, especially the bdl voice, tends to be easier to understand > than espeak. The MATE desktop I mention does ship with the menu that will > help in selecting applications to run and also configuring and shutting down > the system. > > > The best mail client is either Thunderbird or Seamonkey mail. I haven't been > able to get sylpheed working with Orca, and evolution, which I rather like, > does have some webkit-gtk problems that keep it from working 100%. I would > stay away from Mutt personally. I gave up on configuring it to work with > existing mailbox configurations that were not stored on the local machine. > It really is a bear to set up if you have a regular IMAP mailbox. Orca just > reads Thunderbird and Seamonkey much better as well, since you have access > to navigation keys, SayAll mode that will read a message continuously from > the top or from where your cursor is all the way to the bottom, and of > course simple arrow navigation that will read your message line by line > similar to reading it in a text editor or web browser. These clients also > handle links without issues. > > > For browsing, Firefox works out of the box, and Chromium works as well, but > does need some startup flags to be set in order to make Orca read it. That > said, modifying Chromium's startup flags seems to work the best here. It > seems much faster and less sluggish, and I have been able to get it working > with more websites, especially conferencing and phone types of things. > Online banking does seem to work slightly better using Firefox, but pages > seem to load much more slowly. I do tend to keep both around just in case > one works better than the other for a specific task. I hope some of this > helps. > > ~Kyle > > Sent from my quiet place > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list