Re: [orca-list] Suggestion about orca keyboard interface

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

A possible work-around until something appropriate is available might be to 
have multiple Orca keys located around the keyboard so that all needed keys 
are within reach of one of the Orca keys.  Understandably, this means 
sacrificing some keys on the keyboard, so it is not a good solution. 
Defining other Orca keys cannot be done from the Orca preferences 
window--you need to make changes to one of the Orca files.  Here is a tidbit 
from the mailing list that discusses renaming Orca keys.  It was written by 
Will Walker:

> > I think it is impossible via the preferences GUI, but it is possible by
> > editing your user-settings.py or orca-customizations.py file.  The
> > following, for example, should turn your 'w', 'i', and 'l' keys into the
> > Orca modifier (nobody needs those letters anyway):
> >
> > orca.settings.orcaModifierKeys = ["w", "i", "l"]

The files mentioned can be found in the ~/.orca directory.  If they don't 
exist,
create one of them.

I know that there are keyboards designed for use with one hand. 
Unfortunately, I don't know how well Linux supports these keyboards, nor how 
well the Orca key map will work with them.  But, you might want to look into 
them.

Hope this helps,

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>
To: "Jonathan ChacÃn" <jonathan chacon telefonica net>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Suggestion about orca keyboard interface


> Hello,
> I hope I understood what you were asking correctly. Is it that you want
> the orca key to be possible to configure like a sticky key? I don't know
> much about sticky keys, but would it be possible to configure the orca
> key in gnome as a sticky key, and then would orca just see it as being
> held when sticky keys says that the orca key is held?
>
> If the above doesn't work, then it would be possible for orca to be
> modified for that behaviour, it would just need to be that the orca key
> toggles a setting like (orca-key)+f11 toggles speak cell or row. Having
> said that, while it might be simple enough the idea, I don't know how
> easy it would be for this modification to be made to orca (eg. if there
> would be a lot of code to change to support this).
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 11:53 +0200, Jonathan ChacÃn wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Today I'm installing Ubuntu Hardy in my Oqo 02 UMPC and I remember blind
> > people with a good hand to type. That people only can type with a hand 
> > and
> > they can not press orca key and other far key.
> > On Oqo's keyboard I can hold insert key (orca key) to activate orca
> > functions.
> > Can we configure orca to activate orca functions without hold the orca 
> > key?
> > I don't know if I can do it now with actual configuration.
> >
> > Regards
> >   Jonathan Chacn
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