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Soumis par sebelius le mar, 01/21/2014 - 00:45

Program that speaks every keyboard key pressed

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mar, 01/21/2014 - 00:45
sebelius
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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.

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mar, 01/21/2014 - 04:30
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muhammed
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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 title, and then start reading its contents to me.

Orca comes with Trisquel. You'll find it in the Trisquel Menu -> Accessories

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mar, 01/21/2014 - 05:04
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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/

Edit: Sorry that you're losing your sight. When did it start? Mind if I ask how old you are?

I met a blind man at work today. I had some down time, so we talked for a while. He lost his sight during and after university. It has probably been 30 years since then. He wanted to study something else in school, after his undergrad. But it was difficult for blind people back then. It was probably expensive to translate textbooks into Braille. And maybe it was difficult to take notes while reading the Braille books.

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mar, 01/21/2014 - 06:00
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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 earlier), and more... Orca is written in puthon and is highly scriptable and customizable. For specific help on daily use of Orca, best contact me off-list.

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mar, 01/21/2014 - 06:22
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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

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