Re: [orca-list] best desktop for orca on ubuntu 18.04

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Hi,

I use 18.04 gnome with Orca. Alt-F2 works as expected just like 
Alt-Super-S to toggle Orca on or off.

After starting my laptop I hear Orca speaks a number that is the day of 
the month. Then I press Alt-Control-Escape to land on my desktop. 
Alt-Control-Tab takes me to the upper-right of the screen where with 
Right Arrow I find Activity, Clock, Accessibility and System. When I 
land on System I Arrow Down to the options like Volume setting, Wifi, 
and Shut down.

On the left bottom of the screen there is a button, Dash, I reach by 
pressing the Super key. If I start typing the letter F for Firefox or W 
for an url I hear Orca say Firefox and I just press Enter to start Firefox.

Pressing Super-A, Orca says Window, shows me all applications, navigate 
with Arrow keys or Tab.


For some sighted users, on their request, I installed gnome2 with

sudo apt install gnome-session-flashback

So they can switch between Metacity (gnome2) and Ubuntu gnome. But soon 
they stick at Ubuntu gnome.

Milton

Op 11-03-19 om 01:56 schreef peter rayner via orca-list:
> I'm upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I'm not sure which of the
> multiple options on desktops produces the best interaction with orca.
> So far I've seen cases where alt-f2 doesn't speak and I can't find the
> old top bar via alt-ctrl-tab. It's early days though so none of this
> is reliable yet.
> I would welcome any guidance on what other users have chosen for their
> default. If it's just a case of "things have changed, everything is
> still possible it's just different" that will be fine.
> Please mail me directly as well as the group ... I'm very behind with
> reading
> thanks in advance
> Peter