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Project Orca for the blind

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Orca is a technical support flexible, extensible and powerful for people with vision problems. Using various combinations of speech synthesis, braille and magnification, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that use AT-SPI (eg, the GNOME desktop, applications written with GTK, OpenOffice.Org, firefox etc).


Project Orca for the blind

Orca

The project is called ORCA. The development of ORCA has been addressed by the Accessibility Program Office Sun Microsystems Inc., with contributions from many members of the community. Ubuntu can easily download option from Applications / Add / Remove.

add and remove

In the window that we just need to select Show applications are supported, click Universal Access, enable the "screen readers and magnifiers Orca" and click "Apply Changes." From there we just need to follow the routine process of installation.

installing orca

Enabling this application:

Now to start the computer to boot by default only have to go to System / Preferences / Assistive Technology

assistive technologies

We see a window click Apply favorite.
aplicacaiones favorite

In the window that appears select the Accessibility tab and enabled Run at startup.

orca to top

The next time we will start up a test where we will choose the language first and then all the other features like Braille reader etc ...

All this means it will hear a voice that from now on with us in all our actions.

Still can access once the system booted to a preferences window where you can change issues like screen magnifiers.

Click for it in the window that appears when you start.

start orca

We tried to alter the screen magnifiers with a scale 4.

screen magnifiers

The result is to see the screen where you move the cursor four times larger.

amplified desktop

+ Video demonstration + ORCA

Technical and general information on Orca: TICNE: Soluciones TIC http://www.ticne.es/buscador.php?m=detalles&id=625 # tab_info


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