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[Luke Yelavich]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 04:13:30AM EST, rodney jackson wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu 12.1 and I have been able to change settings and set
> up my printer from the network,  but I can not figure out how to read the
> icons on the desktop
> I am still trying to figure out how to navigate with orca,  I have only had
> this installed for a few days.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Firstly, welcome to the list.

If you are new user to Ubuntu and Linux, I suggest you consider installing Ubuntu 12.04 instead, as it is a long term support release, and has better accessibility out of the box. Unfortunately the Ubuntu accessibility team does not have the resources to make sure all releases of Ubuntu are reasonably accessible out of the box.

As for navigating icons on the desktop, this is only possible to do if there are actually icons on the desktop. By default, Ubuntu does not have any icons placed on the desktop for a fresh install. As for learning how to use Orca, I suggest you try out Orca's keyboard learning mode. You can activate this by pressing Orca + h, where Orca is either insert if you are on a desktop, or caps lock if you are on a laptop. Note you need to have the correct keyboard layout configured in Orca's preferences.

Hope this helps as a starting point for you.

Luke