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" <clever92000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> 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 op??o para voc?! Experimente j? e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
