Re: [orca-list] Some really newbie questions



Hello Christopher,
Thank you so much for all your answers, they helped a lot!
I'm still having some really wacky things happening, even after resetting orca.
1. I'm currently sitting in thunderbird with the announce progress bar unchecked and thunderbird is telling me every few seconds that it is downloading 5 messages or 6 messages...
2. When I read this line it says:
"two. when I read this line it sa y s"
what is that? I'm arrowing up with no punctuation and the above 2 lines sound identical.
3. what does it mean when in the key bindings for
"bookmark where am I in respect to current position" alt_l+shift+1
I press that and it doesn't do anything...
4. If I arrow down to the line in this email that says:
"Brandon Keith Biggs"
ctrl+right arrow once, then press ctrl+left, I can't move back into the email nomatter how many times I press ctrl+left.
5. When I'm in some fields, like the key bindings window and wish to hear the key command by character, neither orca+i or orca=+k work to spell the keys.
Thanks,

 07/21/2014 06:15 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
I read my email messages in Thunderbird by first changing my Orca settings to automatically read new messages to me. You can do this by going into the Thunderbird specific settings for Orca by hitting Orca+control+space while in Thunderbird. Control+tab over to the Thunderbird tab and check the box that says automatically start reading a page when it's first loaded.

I use the preview pane, and just use F6 to jump over there. The 'f' key will take you to your next message, the 'n' key will take you to your next unread message, the delete key will delete a message and the 'b' key will take you back a message, but you need to pass that through Orca first with the Orca+backspace key.

I use Orca+; (That's Orca and the semi-colon key.) to read from the current position to the end of the document or page.

On 07/21/2014 06:28 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
Hello,
Some really newbie questions:
1. How do I make Orca say a word rather than spelling it when incountering a string like "test1"?
2. How can I keep Orca from saying "capital o" or "backspace o" when pressing shift or backspace?
3. What is the best way to navigate through thunderbird? In windows I just press enter on my messages and it reads all super fast, but here it seems to lag a lot when I do that. Hitting f6 works, but does not do a "read all" function when I jump into the message pane. How can I most quickly read my messages?
4. Where is spell-check in Thunderbird located?
5. How do I save in Gedit? When I press ctrl+s Orca says "capital s" and jumps me into the save window. I type in a document name like "test1" then hit enter. Nothing happens. I then type: "test1.txt" and hit enter. The only thing that seemed to work is "/test1" and now I can't find it in my home dir.
6. How do I see the username of my computer? When trying to log into the console I'm asked for my user name, but I don't remember it...
7. I'm using the elaquence synth and when arrowing through letters I often hear lowd pops. Is there any way to keep this from happening?
8. Is there any way to hear the function name rather than the keys when I do something like ctrl s or ctrl r in an app? I know what I'm pressing, but don't always know what function I'm calling.
9. I can't seem to find a "read all" function, what is the key command for read all?
10. Is there any way to add or remove folders in the bookmark menu in firefox without going into the bookmarks manager? I tried going into the bookmarks manager, adding a folder and looking at the folder in the menu, but even though the folder was named in the manager, it still showed "unnamed" in the bookmarks menu.
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs



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