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Hi, Darragh.
The first step you may wish to take is by reading
the gnome 2.4 users guide, and accessibility guide on the gnome.org web
site.
These documents will give you pointers on the
accessible options for the desktop, how to navigate around the desktop, switch
to windows, how to switch from desktop to pannel, etc... Many other built in key
commands very helpful to know before exploring applications.
As far as email clients there is balsa which is
very friendly now, and Evolution 1.4.5 is pretty fair, but I think Evolution
still needs accessibility improvements yet.
For text editing docs you can use the gedit text
editor. The gnome calculator works pretty fair, and the gnome dictionary also
works nice.
In multimedia the Gnome cd player works well, and I
can use the gnome sound recorder. The volume control works well, and I like
using it much better than aumix etc which wasn't as easy to use.
To brouse the internet Mozilla 1.5 is probably your
only choice. Mozilla 1.4 doesn't give me any real feedback, and I am in the
process myself of downloading and installing 1.5 which I have heard is much more
accessible.
If you check the gnome-java-access-bridge out of
cvs, build it, and install it you can gain access to any java app build
with accessible swing classes. For example the demo Notepad program supplied
with the java sdk.
More importantly you can use Staroffice 7.0 or
Openoffice I believe it is 1.2 if the access-bridge is installed.
Yasr's biggest strength is being able to talk
inside gnome-terminal. Last I tried speakup did nothing in gnome-terminal,
and had to strictly be used at the shell level only.
Also I found while speakup was running gnopernicus
couldn't get access to the numpad which created many problems. This may have
changed by now, but as of six months ago I had to use speakup and gnopernicus
separate where I can use yasr and gnopernicus together.
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