Reading text in Orca

[Jon Cosby]

On Friday, December 5th, 2025 at 4:17 PM, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Jon.
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> On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 at 10:59, Jon Cosby via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> I'm configuring Ubuntu on a laptop for someone who's visually impaired. A screen reader is very important. On my desktop, Orca reads the selected text. It doesn't do this on the laptop and I don't see a setting for this. Can anyone point me to it? Thanks.
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> I'm doing this as a community service; I don't know much about your specific problem.
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> Which Make/model/version of laptop? Which Ubuntu version? Which "Orca" version?
> Same for your desktop... good for comparison I would guess.
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> Community service complete,

It's a Microsoft Surface laptop. Don't know the model. I'm running openSUSE on the desktop, an Acer Aspire TC-895. We have Ubuntu Desktop 24.04.3.

Jon Cosby

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