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Hello.
In order to access the Emacs's menubar you would need to use Orca along with Emacspeak, since the later cannot read these graphical components. However, this is awkward and in fact, goes against the philosophy of Emacs/Emacspeak. When using Emacs you don't need to have access to the menubar, toolbar and other analogous visual resources (in fact, even sighted Emacs advanced users do not use them), because Emacs is originally a terminal editor and absolutely everything is accessible by keybindings (keystrokes in the Emacs terminology). By the way, this characteristic (the independence from a GUI) is one of the main advantages that Emacs/Emacspeak offers to blind users.
I suggest that you start studying the main keybindings of Emacs/Emacspeak in order to get more acquainted with these concepts. With a bit of pracctice you will understand why you do not need to use the menubar. I recomend that you start with the Emacs tutorial. For such, open Emacs and press C-h t. In the Emacs terminology, C means Control. The keybinding C-h t, means press Control and h simultaneously, drops the combination and press t. This will open the Emacs tutorial. Follow the steps in this tutorial and you will learn the main keybindings for reading text, switching between buffers, windows and so forth.
One thing very useful in the Emacs is its capability of being self explanatory. In another words you can use Emacs for learning about Emacs. For example, there are several keybindings that describe other keybindings. Press C-h k and after, press C-h t. You will hear Emacspeak reading a help content open in a separate window. In this case, Emacs will describe the keybinding C-h t (the same that I indicated previously to open the Emacs tutorial).
Best regards.
Alan Ghelardi On 07/10/2017 10:05 AM, ronak shah
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