Orca

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orca

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/orca/#dirlist
Orca is a screen reader for Gnome that tries to create a consistant user experience across multiple applications that use objects in different ways, and lets users quickly reach information not easily reachable through keyboard navigation commands. Orca defines a set of default behaviors (reactions to application events) and key bindings (reaction to user key presses). These can be overwritten on a per-application basis. Orca creates a script object for each running application, which merges both the default behaviors and key bindings, and the application specific ones. It also provides the infrastructure to activate and deactivate scripts and the various services accessible from within the scripts.

Related Projects

• Dictator
• Gnopernicus
• KDE Accessibility
• Lazyread
• Reed
• ATK

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Download version NO_VERSION_DATA (stable)
released on 1 January 1970

Categories

• Interface:accessibility
• Interface:x-window-system
• Use:interface

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv2orlater	Janet Casey	23 November 2004

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Willie Walker	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	VCS Repository Webview	http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/orca/#dirlist
Bug Tracking,Developer,Support	E-mail	mailto:marc.mulcahy@sun.com

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to use	at-spi
Required to use	gnome-speech 0.3.0 or later
Required to use	Python 2.2 or 2.3
Weak prerequisite	BRLTTY 3.5 (for Braille support)
Required to use	pyorbit
Required to use	pygtk
Required to use	gnome-python

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 12 May 2005.

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