Hello, Firstly my main use of Linux on an installed system is using ArchLinux, I tend to use GRML only as a LiveCD (eg as a rescue CD).
For an installed system I normally browse the internet in firefox in gnome. This probably is the best way for getting a browser which will work with most websites. Also while flash content is inaccessible to orca (flash content is inaccessible on everything bu windows), flashplayer in firefox will play videos/audio where it is set to automatically start playing. I know there have been issues with gnome 3 accessibility, however running from it possibly won't help matters, the bugs need to be tracked down somehow.
OK, I accept there are times when you possibly want to just get things done, so that is normally where I turn to the Mac (I am having issues with speakup working on my computers so the command line isn't a great option for me in Linux).
For general browsing in the command line I would use lynx, however if javascript support is needed then links2 or elinks is another option (I am not sure whether edbrowse supports javascript, I think it might). As for flash support, I don't think there is any simple, ready set up solution, however may be some of the follow may help with some flash needs. The are clients to many popular services where you do not need to use a web browser. An example would be, there are some scripts for accessing BBC iplayer content from the command line where it can download the program onto your system in a more standard format you can play with something like mplayer (or if using gnome totem), for example audio from radio programs I think can be saved as m4a files. There is also a client for youtube. There may be other clients for other services, but these are the ones I have paid any attention to.
I hope some of this helps you.
Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, Doug Smith wrote:
, everyone on the list. I am writing this to see how blind grml users are handling current web technologies such as flash and javascript.
I am wishing to change back to GRML which I haven't been able to use in years. The main reason is that the gui world is going to change and there have been problems with accessibility. This doesn't, of course happen with good old command line, of course, and I just wonder if some of the blind people using grml now can tell me about their work-aroundds for such problems as flash and javascript.
Is it possible to have mplayer be the viewer for all these streaming file formats and get it to work with w3m or edbrowse or whatever: Please let me know if there is something you are doing to handle current web technologies in command line mode and i will be glad to hear from you.
Sincerely:
Doug Smith