keyboard commands for orca and gnome in ubuntu

[Jude DaShiell]

You can use the tab key to move off applications onto places and hit tab 
once more and you land on system.



On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Herzog wrote:

> speech at turn on and Orca navigation have been recurrent questions. 
> ok, I haven't seen anyone answering these two questions so here is an 
> attempt.
> Wil Herzog
> Josh wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Is there a list of keyboard commands for orca and gnome? the ones that
>>  come with the latest ubuntu?
>>
>>  Josh
>>
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>
> here is a keystroke by keystroke of me turning on my Ubuntu machine now:
> 1. press the inspiron 1420 main button, top middle of keyboard.
> Eventually it starts and It all comes up and says "welcome to orca". This 
> magic all came about by my updating to Ubuntu 7.10, and the various Dell 
> updates.
> tab's toggle between "orca screen reader preferences and quit. i entered on 
> preferences.
> Then 5 right arrows read tabs/tags that get to key bindings. This is the 
> cheat-sheet that has some of the info one needs to navigate.
> pressing the down arrow marches through all the keys and definitions..
>
>
> 2.  I am sighted, so achieve this I  must cheat and point my arrow to 
> "system" and press a left click.
> I have not learned how to get there any other way.
> but then  a down arrow gets to "preferences", and a right arrow moves to 
> "Universal access" and a second right arrow gets to "
> "Assistive Technology Preferences.
> 4 down arrows get stuff that reads, but the "acessible login"  is the magic 
> one that gets to an automatic login.
>
> Then an enter brings up an "assistive technology preferences box"
>
> end
>
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