[BRLTTY] OT: Starting Orca on Ubuntu 12.04.2

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Fri Mar 29 03:00:44 EDT 2013


John J. Boyer <john.boyer at abilitiessoft.com> wrote:
> The screen is displaying the desktop. How do I access it without a 
> screenreader? Do I have to ask a sighted person to start Orca? What's 
> the point of all this accessibility talk if I can't start the 
> screenreader?

Run orca -t from the console and answer the questions to configure Orca. After
that, you should be able to start it from the desktop by typing Alt-F2 orca
<enter>

If that works, configure it to start by default (how you do that depends on
which version of Gnome is installed).



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