Utilizing Orca (General Question)

[Mike Reiser]

    As for reading webpages, you can arrow through them and yse the H and 
shift H keys to go through them.  Improvements are being made all the time 
and I'm sure it'll get better in gutsy.

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Cole" <rkcole72984 at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List" 
<Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:47 PM
Subject: Utilizing Orca (General Question)


> Hello, everyone.
>
> I've been taking classes related to the JAWS screen reader for the past
> couple of weeks.  The organization which is teaching me does not offer
> any support for Ubuntu/Linux (nor did they really know anything about
> it).  I've been a user of screen magnifiers for years, but I've recently
> realized that I can accomplish things a lot faster by using a screen
> reader.  I've been working with Orca a bit today, and I just have a few
> questions:
>
> 1)  How does one go about reading Web pages with Orca?  Is this
> something which will be improved with Firefox in Ubuntu Gutsy?
>
> 2)  Is Thunderbird at all accessible?
>
> 3)  I found the page which contains information related to Orca keyboard
> shortcuts.  Are there any others whihc may not be listed?  And is there
> any other place I can find information on Orca?
>
> Thanks, everyone.
>
> Take care.
>
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