Thanks for your kind, fast response! ..the preveious distro was 10.04..and the pointer movement was controlled by using the tab button and the up-down-right-left-arrows. I believe there was a box on orca preferences that you check to enable keyboard commands or keyboard shortcuts..this way, when you moved the mouse pointer using a keyboard command, orcha would speak or identify whatever the pointer would land on...for instance, on the desktop you hit tab and keep hitting tab and it would keep moving to the next icon on the desktop and would speak the item it was on. It doesn't do that in distro 12.04.02, which is the current distro we are using. If you're blind, you have no way of knowing where the mouse pointer is on the screen.. Also, on the 12.04..if you roll the mouse pointer over the icons on the desktop it doesn't speak them either. I'm totally blind and I need it to tell me what the icons I'm on are.. I've been using orca now for a couple of years and have made cd's of all the keyboard shortcut commands to learn them (talking book type of lessons).
Hope this info will help with a solution.. thanks.. Cheryl Holmes ..(written by friend David) On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Luke Yelavich <luke.yelav...@canonical.com>wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:17:27AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > Could you please be more explicit? What version of Ubuntu are you > referring to? Have you tried to look through the GNOME/Ubuntu help to find > the Orca documentation? Another way to get to Orca's docs when it is > running is to press insert + h, then F1. Alternatively if on a laptop, and > Orca is set to laptop mode, use capslock + H, and then F1. > > Uh, I meant could you please be more specific... > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1223464 > > Title: > orca keyboard command shortcuts > > Status in “gnome-orca” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > there are no keyboard command shortcuts for the blind... > what is the solution? what is the code? > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-orca/+bug/1223464/+subscriptions > -- When you have so little in life, there's nothing as precious as the unselfish, undying love, devotion and companionship of blessed little angels we call our pets....(in memory and deepest love, Frankie, 2013; Hillary, June 2008; Misty Nov. 2007; Maxi, July 2004; Sheba, May 2000). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1223464 Title: orca keyboard command shortcuts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-orca/+bug/1223464/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
