Orca Screen Reader
Orca Screen Reader: Empowering Accessibility for Visual Impairments
About Orca Screen Reader
Orca Screen Reader is a powerful accessibility tool designed to assist users with visual impairments by providing comprehensive screen reading capabilities. It supports navigation, text-to-speech, and interactive features for documents, web pages, and applications, enhancing digital accessibility for all users.
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You are encouraged to first familiarize yourself with the navigation commands provided by your desktop environment. Then, you can begin by learning about Orca's basic features such as the Orca Modifier, Configuration, Learn Mode, and Keyboard Layout.
The Orca Modifier is a key that works like Shift, Ctrl, and Alt. It can be configured to suit your needs, and you can choose between Desktop or Laptop layout for the keyboard.
Yes, Orca allows you to bind, rebind, and unbind commands to keys. This flexibility helps you tailor the screen reader to your specific needs.
Orca provides features to navigate tables and set dynamic headers, making it easier to understand and interact with tabular data in documents.
Learn Mode is a feature in Orca that helps you discover and learn the screen reader's commands by providing feedback as you use them.
Orca offers several methods to review screen contents, including 'Where Am I' to learn about your location, 'Flat Review' to examine a window spatially, and 'Mouse Review' to use the pointer to examine the screen.
Yes, Orca can interact with dynamic web content through 'Live Regions,' which allows you to work with content that updates without a full page reload.
Profiles in Orca allow you to maintain multiple configurations, which is useful if you need different settings for various tasks or environments.
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