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GNOME Accessibility Application Orca 2.91.5 Released
Jan 11, 2011
GNOME's Orca screen reader is providing users accessibility to their graphical desktop using assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI).
Orca 2.91.5, GNOME's free and open source screen reader gives users access to their graphical desktop through customizable combinations of speech, braille, and magnification and is now available for download.
Orca works with the assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI). The GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, SWT, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Mozilla, and WebKitGtk are among the AT-SPI supported toolkits and applications. Support for KDE Qt toolkit is also being looked at.
Orca, since the GNOME 2.16 release, is available as part of the GNOME platform and continues to be provided by default on operating system distributions, such as Open Solaris, Fedora, and Ubuntu.
(Amber Graner)
Comments
Correct Orca Spelling
Amber Graner
Jan 11, 2011 11:12pm GMT
Thank you for pointing out the error. The correct spelling of the application is "Orca".
So, how do you spell it?
someone
Jan 11, 2011 10:56pm GMT
So, how do you spell it? It is spelled 2 different ways. Ocra? Orca? What?
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Comments
Correct Orca Spelling
Amber Graner Jan 11, 2011 11:12pm GMT
Thank you for pointing out the error. The correct spelling of the application is "Orca".So, how do you spell it?
someone Jan 11, 2011 10:56pm GMT
So, how do you spell it? It is spelled 2 different ways. Ocra? Orca? What?Ocra?
NOYBW Jan 11, 2011 10:42pm GMT
Ocra? Or, is it Orca? Which one?Ocra
NOYB Jan 11, 2011 10:35pm GMT
Ocra? Or Orca?