Re: [orca-list] some questions about Orca

["Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>]

on a desktop Orca reads from the cursor position by pressing the plus key on 
the numeric keypad. Pressing twice Orca_H you will find all short keys.
Milton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain gmail com>
To: "Orca" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] some questions about Orca


> I'll include some brief answers to your questions below.
>
> On 23/05/12 13:20, Harold wrote:
> > So far I have been enjoying my experience with Orca and Ubuntu in
> > general but had a few questions.  Coming from jaws and voice over some
> > of the language is different in the Orca manual.  What is flat review
> > used for?
>
> Flat review is used to read text on the screen that you can't get to by
> jumping around an application with tab and arrow keys. For example, if
> you want to review messages that have been spit out onto the screen in a
> terminal session. If you're used to other screen readers, you could
> think of it as JAWS cursor mode.
>
> >  Is there a say all command for Orca, I thought it was Orca ;
> > but this does not work.
>
> How does it not work? Orca+; is what I use to read from the current
> position in a document to the end of the document.
>
> > What is best way to read email in Thunder bird?  I have
> > the prview pane turned off so when pressing return it brings up the
> > email in a seperate window, how to I quickly navigate to the message
> > body to read it?  This is where say all would come in handy.
>
> I don't know what the best way to read email in Thunderbird is, but I
> use the preview pane, and I use the F6 key to jump between my folder
> list, my list of messages within a folder and the beginning of a
> message. F6 may also jump you to the beginning of the message if you
> open up a message in it's own window, but I'm not sure about that.
>
> I also turn on the automatic reading of messages in the Orca settings
> for Thunderbird. IMHO, this should be the default, just as not reading
> pages automatically in Firefox should be the default. Like I said
> though, that's just my opinion!
>
> > Overall, good times.  I would love to see Orca released for Android
> > handset as a mobile version, that would be cool.
>
> I'd love to just see Ubuntu running on a handset myself!
>
> --
> Christopher (CJ)
> chaltain at Gmail
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