Re: Question on Using Orca

2009-01-21 Thread Willie Walker

Hi Pete:

You can find documentation on Orca at 
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/stable/ats-2.html


Keep in mind that we designed flat review as an escape mode for 
ill-behaved applications.  The primary operating mode of Orca is "focus 
tracking mode", which is where you interact with the application using 
the built-in keyboard navigation techniques of GNOME (e.g., Tab, 
Shift+Tab to move between components).


Hope this helps,

Will

On Jan 20, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Peter Torpey wrote:

I loaded up Ubuntu with Orca recently.  Since I’m still getting used 
to understanding the Orca speech synthesizer (I’m a JAWS/Eloquence 
user), I’ve been trying to read as much of the on-line documentation 
on how to use Orca as possible before I run Ubuntu (or Vinux) much 
more.

 
I’ve seen references to using Orca with the “flat screen” mode, but I 
haven’t been able to figure out which keystrokes get into and out of 
this mode.  I assume that this mode is similar to navigating around 
the screen using the JAWS cursor so that one can review what is on the 
screen without the navigation keys affecting what happens.

 
Anyway, is there such a screen review mode with Orca?  If so, how does 
one pop in and out of this mode?

 
Thanks.
 
n  Pete
 
 
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Question on Using Orca

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Torpey
I loaded up Ubuntu with Orca recently.  Since I'm still getting used to
understanding the Orca speech synthesizer (I'm a JAWS/Eloquence user), I've
been trying to read as much of the on-line documentation on how to use Orca
as possible before I run Ubuntu (or Vinux) much more.

 

I've seen references to using Orca with the "flat screen" mode, but I
haven't been able to figure out which keystrokes get into and out of this
mode.  I assume that this mode is similar to navigating around the screen
using the JAWS cursor so that one can review what is on the screen without
the navigation keys affecting what happens.

 

Anyway, is there such a screen review mode with Orca?  If so, how does one
pop in and out of this mode?

 

Thanks.

 

n  Pete

 

 

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