orca
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 7 May 2008
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NAME
orca - a screen reader / magnifier
SYNOPSIS
orca
[option...]
DESCRIPTION
orca
is a screen reader for people with visual impairments,
and provides alternative access to the desktop by making use
of speech synthesis, braille, and magnification support on
the platform.
In addition,
orca
only provides access to
applications/toolkits that support the assistive technology
service provide interface (AT-SPI), which include GTK,
Mozilla, Firefox, Evolution, OpenOffice, StarOffice,
Java/Swing, etc.
WARNING: suspending
orca,
e.g. by pressing Control-Z, from
an AT-SPI enabled shell (such as gnome-terminal), can also
suspend the desktop until Orca is killed.
OPTIONS
- -s, --gui-setup, --setup
-
When starting
orca,
bring up the GUI configuration dialog.
- -t, --text-setup
-
When starting
orca,
initiate the text-based configuration.
- -n, --no-setup
-
When starting
orca,
force the application to be started without configuration, even though
it might have needed it. This is useful when starting
orca
via something like gdm.
- -u dirname
-
- --user-prefs-dir=dirname
-
When starting
orca,
use
dirname
as an alternate directory for the user preferences.
- -e speech|braille|braille-monitor|magnifier|main-window
-
- --enable=speech|braille|braille-monitor|magnifier|main-window
-
When starting
orca,
force the enabling of the supplied options.
- -d speech|braille|braille-monitor|magnifier|main-window
-
- --disable=speech|braille|braille-monitor|magnifier|main-window
-
When starting
orca,
force the disabling of the supplied options.
- -?, -h, --help
-
Show the help
message of this release of the
orca
program.
- -l, --list-apps
-
Prints the names of all the currently running applications. This
is used primarily for debugging purposes to see if
orca
can talk to the accessibility infrastructure. Note that if
orca
is already running, this will not kill the other
orca
process. It will just list the currently running applications,
and you will see
orca
listed twice: once for the existing
orca
and once for this instance.
- --debug
-
Enables debug output for
orca
and sends all debug output to a file with a name of the
form 'debug-YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS.out' in the current directory.
The YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS portion will be replaced with the current
date and time.
- --debug-file=filename
-
Enables debug output for
orca
and sends all debug output to the given filename.
- -v, --version
-
Return the
orca
version number.
- -q, --quit
-
Quit
orca.
AUTHOR
orca
development is a community effort led by the Sun Microsystems Inc.
Accessibility Program Office.
SEE ALSO
The
orca
wiki at
<http://live.gnome.org/orca>
The
orca
mailing list orca-list@gnome.org