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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I run Ubuntu 16.04 with Gnome and Orca. I can't tell from your message 
what you're trying to do. If you ask how to do something, I can tell you 
how I would get it done in this environment.


You could try hitting control+alt+tab to get you to the top bar. Right 
arrow to the various menus and then down arrow. I find everything is spoken.


Just hit the super key followed by control+alt+tab to get to the dash or 
hit it three times to get to the list of applications on your system.


On 12/29/2017 08:16 AM, 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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Christopher (CJ)
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