[Hudlug] changing to linux

[MICHAEL WEAVER]

An application like Gnucash may or may not work at the moment with Orca 
but if I am going to switch to Linux only which seems more and more 
likely I will need to cover every application area or at least every 
application area I might use ie Office or Internet.
What needs to be done is somehow for me to look at application areas and 
come up with a Linux alternative to a Windows app for it which is 
accessable in Orca or Speakup when Ubuntu includes it or Emacspeak as a 
last resort.
For example a lot of my time is spent on the Internet so I need a good 
web browser which will work in preferably both shell and graphical 
environments as I know text browsers are not as up to date and can be 
limited to the pages they will launch.
I can cover something like this with Firefox and maybe links and as a 
last resort by a browser that works in Emacs if I have to learn Emacs.
I need something for email and News so I suppose that would be covered 
by Evolution or again something else maybe even one from the shell again.
At some point I hope to create my own web page so I need something I can 
use that is equivalent in Linux which would cover a Windows application.
The same for FTP.
If I decide to do messenging I need something that will work for that 
for example Gaim.
I think that is how I need to look at applications, pick an application 
area, break it down into its various sub areas like I have just done 
with Internet applications and come up with accessable applications that 
are useable with Orca, Speakup and maybe emacspeak. I agree with dad in 
this respect as I don't want to go into an application area and find 
there isn't a Linux Screenreader accessable alternative to an 
application that would work with a screenreader under Windows.