Do you know of one?
Might be going blind later on as my vision is decreasing dramatically more
and more. So i need to research how i can possibly use the computer
efficiently without the need of eyes.
I see Dave_Hunt help people out with this kind of thing once in a while. I
heard about Orca because of him. Maybe he'll see this topic.
I found these links in the Documentation:
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
http://www.gnu.org/accessibility/
I just tested the application Orca Screen Reader. It speaks the keys that
I type on my keyboard. It seems to work system-wide. I tried it in the
Trisquel menu, program menus, LibreOffice, Synapse.
Orca also reads on-screen text. So if I select a new window, it will tell me
the window
I'm blind and use Orca in GNU/Linux sistros. If you need it, Orca can speak
typed keys, or word-wise inputs. It reads and works with many applications,
including the desktop/menu system, synaptic package manager, terminal,
pidgin, libreoffice writer and calc, abrowser (ersions 24 and
Here's a page I wrote for another wiki, on how to use Orca, with examples
taken from my use of the thing in Trisquel.
http://accessiblefreedom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Orca#Starting_Orca
