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Yelp

• Description: Help application for GNOME

• Command: yelp

• URL: http://live.gnome.org/Yelp

• Summary: Not accessible, work underway. Workaround available.

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Firefox 3.0

• Description: Web browser

• URL: http://www.mozilla.org

• Summary: Under development. Works well with Orca for many web pages.

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GAIM

• Description: multi-protocol instant messaging client
• Note: Newer versions seem to be called pidgin.

• Command: gaim

• URL: http://gaim.sourceforge.net

• Summary: GAIM has been extensively tested and scripted, and is a very accessible solution.

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Skype

• Summary: Can be made to work via Pidgin Plugin

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Evolution

• Description: integrated mail, calendar, task and address book distributed suite from Novell, Inc.

• URL: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/

• Summary: Accessible as of version 2.6.1. Evolution has been tested and scripted extensively by the Orca team, and is a viable solution for your email, calendar, and contact management needs.

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Thunderbird

• Description: Mozilla's E-mail Client

• URL: http://www.mozilla.org/

• Summary: Accessible as of version 3.0a1pre of January 14, 2008.

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OpenOffice

• Description: Openoffice.org is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.

• URL: http://www.openoffice.org

• Summary: Accessible as of version 2.03. Versions prior to 2.03 are known not to be accessible. At present, Openoffice Calc and Openoffice Writer have been extensively scripted and are undergoing testing. Currently Accessible functions in this suite include: Document creation and editing, spell checking, manipulation of tables and forms, as well as the ability to work with spreadsheets.

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GEdit

• Description: simple text editing package

• URL: http://www.gnome.org

• Summary: Works well with Orca.

• Orca/GEdit#details

Gobby

• Description: Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

It uses GTK+ 2.6 as its windowing toolkit and thus integrates nicely into the GNOME desktop environment.

• Command: gobby

• URL: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/

• Summary: Works well with Orca, but needs more testing for A11y

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GNOME Terminal

• Description: a command line shell

• URL: http://www.gnome.org

• Summary: Works well with Orca.

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Acroread

• Description: Adobe's PDF Document Viewer

• URL: http://www.adobe.com/

• Summary: Working OK, but needs some fixes from Adobe for more compelling access

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Freeloader (inaccessible)

• Description: Bittorrent client for GNOME
• Command: freeloader

• URL: http://www.ruinedsoft.com/freeloader/

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Transmission

• Description: A GTK based bittorrent client
• Command: transmission

• URL: http://www.transmissionbt.com

• Summary: This Bittorrent client it's near fully accessible (version 1.06 tested)

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Devede

• Description: A program to create video dvds and video cd.

• Command: devede

• URL: http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html

• Summary: Accessible 3.12 version tested.

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Jokosher

• Description: simple and easy to use audio multi-tracker
• Command:

• URL: http://www.jokosher.org

• Summary: Accessible as of version 0.1-0. This application has not yet been tested thoroughly; However, Basic functions, such as the navigation of menus and dialogs work as expected.

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Sound Converter

• Description: sound conversion application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read (Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, M4A, AC3, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE, SID, etc...), and writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Command: soundconverter

• URL: http://soundconverter.berlios.de/

• Summary: works well with Orca.

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Gnu Cash

• Description: personal finance tracking program
• Command:

• URL: http://www.gnucash.org

• Summary: Known to be accessible as of version 2.0. Note however, that versions prior to 2.0 are known to be inaccessible. This application has not been tested extensively; However, early results appear very encouraging. all Wizards, menus and dialogs tested thus far have behaved as expected.

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Synaptic

• Description: graphical package management tool based on GTK+ and aptitude (apt)

• Command: synaptic

• URL:
• Summary: Known to be accessible as of version 0.57.11. This package currently works relatively well; However,some issues do exist which may require scripting to correct. For example, when reading the table of packages, there doesn't seem to be a way to determine the status of a given package; that is, whether it is installed, not installed, marked for installation, etc.

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Startup Manager (SUM)

• Description: GUI tool (based in GTK+) for changing settings in the bootloader and splash screen in Ubuntu

• URL: http://web.telia.com/~u88005282

• Summary: Accessible as of version 1.0.2 (2007-02-22). Startup manager has been tested and no script is needed by the moment. It looks like a very accessible solution. It's a dangerous application because it configures the grub menu, so this tool could make your system unable to start. You must to take care using startupmanager. It is tested with Ubuntu and Kubuntu, versions Breezy, Dapper, Edgy and Feisty. It might work with other debian based linux distros, but it is not recommended. Actually i think that it's no an official package of this tool in Ubuntu repositories although you can download a deb package from its website or add to your sources.list this repository (only for edgy) : deb http://ubuntusoftware.info/ edgy all

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