Re: [orca-list] alt+super+s to start orca

[Alejandro Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

It is the GNOME keyshort to start the screen reader since 3.9 (so first
stable release was 3.10):
https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/KeyboardShortcuts

But then it is true that any specific distro can use it or not.

On 25/04/16 19:20, Burt Henry wrote:
> I think any distro that uses the gnome desktop and has orc installed  has 
> this keystroke available. 
> This started quite a few gnome versions ago, but not sure if it has been 
> around since gnome 3.0 or if it was adopted a bit later. 
> Also on Vinux5 this binding works on Mate. 
> Besides gnome3 and mate on Vinux as indicated by Peter, alt super s 
> toggles orca on or off on relatively recent versions of Ubuntu/unity, i.e. 
> at least since Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tar..., but I think it was used 
> earlier than this.
> To the best of my knowledge no recent distro/release uses any other hotkey 
> to start/stop orca, but I've certainly not tried everything out there.
> Again, Gnome shell is the common denominator that these Linux flavours 
> share with the exception of Vinux5.0.
> Perhaps someone who is using mate 3.10 and or 3.12 can chime in as to 
> whether or not mate has adopted the orca toggle keybinding. If they have 
> not, someopne should contact the developers and suggest this, and explain 
> the importance in trying to make the accessiblity experience as uniformly 
> available across distros and graphical environments as possible. 
>