Re: [orca-list] Getting started using orca under ubuntu

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi Jacob,
I am the least qualified to answer you, so believe you will get better 
answers.
My impression is that a number of people prefer the mate desktop, but I 
think the ones you are trying to use should be usable.
Do make sure you have the latest updates installed.
> From a root prompt, do
apt-get update
and once it is done,
apt-get upgrade.
That will install all updates for the ubuntu you are running which came 
out 
since the releace.
HTH, Willem

On Fri, 29 Dec 2017, Jacob Kruger wrote:

> I am busy setting up a second machine, which might become my primary 
> development platform, since I am primarily a web developer, who works with 
> PHP, etc..
>
>
> Anyway, my primary platform up to now has been windows, working with the NVDA 
> screen reader, but, I have already got a desktop PC, with a 275Gb solid-state 
> drive, which has ubuntu 16.04 installed on it, with orca up and running, and, 
> I am pretty comfortable with the object navigation/screen review commands, 
> since they are relatively similar to NVDA on the windows platform's object 
> navigation, and, also since I have played around with raspberry pi mini 
> computers in the past, running the raspbian version of debian linux - there 
> worked with a version of speakUp, working primarily command line.
>
>
> However, my introductory question actually relates to the use of Ubuntu, 
> and/or the configuration thereof.
>
>
> This is since neither the gnome menu/search box, brought up using left 
> alt+F1, and the unity launcher, brought up using the super/windows key on the 
> keyboard seem to offer much in conjunction with orca - not with current 
> configuration, in any case?
>
>
> This is since both of them seem to, at various points, just not read out 
> focus items to me, or, under unity launcher, it will just tell me something 
> like "push button", without reading any form of description beyond that out 
> to me.
>
>
> In other words, should I consider a prior version of ubuntu, or a completely 
> different instance of linux, or is there some additional setting, or form of 
> configuration I should look into?
>
>
> Lastly, the reason I am asking these questions is since I would want to use 
> the machine as a complete PC, working on it as a coding platform, as well as 
> my work machine, and for leisure activities like reading eBooks, playing 
> music, audio editing, etc. etc.
>
>
> TIA
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> "Resistance is futile, but, acceptance is versatile..."
>
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