[BRLTTY] OT: Starting Orca on Ubuntu 12.04.2

[John J. Boyer]

The desktop is started when Ubuntu boots up. I have no access to it 
without a screenreader. The solution appears to be to set up Orca to 
start at boot-up.

John

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:00:44PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> 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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