orca(1)orca(1)NAMEorca - a screen reader / magnifier
SYNOPSISorca [option...]
DESCRIPTIONorca is a screen reader for people with visual impairments, and pro‐
vides alternative access to the desktop by making use of speech synthe‐
sis, 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 use‐
ful 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.
AUTHORorca 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>
⟨http://live.gnome.org/orca⟩
The orca mailing list orca-list@gnome.org
GNOME 7 May 2008 orca(1)