Okay I've learned my new thing for the day :-) I was booting it on an old intel mac mini that actually has debian on it but I'm not using orca on it now. I actually did get it to boot and I did discover that command-option-s got me screen reader is turned on" and "off". I'll probably play with it more later. > On Sep 11, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Super+alt+s means hold down the super key, the alt key and the s key all at the same time. The super key is also known as the Windows key. > > On 09/11/2015 08:09 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> Hmmm, maybe I was confused about the installer you are using or perhaps >> what I found was too old. In looking at debian accessibility there is >> reference to the gnome live cd and it does talk about starting orca. I'm >> pasting what it says (can't figure out what super-alt-s is!) and paste >> the link. >> >> The gnome liveCD has screen reader support. At the boot menu, one has to >> type enter (TODO: add beep). Then the desktop launches up (TODO: add >> beep), and one can press super-alt-s to start Orca. >> >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility >> >> >>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx >>> <mailto:cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>> >>> Well, I went looking for this, partly because it seems you've gotten >>> no answer and partly because I have a frustrating situation with two >>> old computers with different wifi cards that can respond to a scan but >>> don't connect. I was thinking about trying the live cd in them to see >>> whether that would do wifi for either of these machines but frankly >>> this link below looks rather confusing so I don't know whether or not >>> I'll try it. I imagine you have already read this so it's probably not >>> helpful but it's all I've found so far. >>> >>> >>> >>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility/doc/StartGuide >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> >>>> On Sep 10, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona >>>> <hank.smith966@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:hank.smith966@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>>> >>>> xHello when launching the live cd >>>> when the drum sounds what is the proper command to turn orca on? >>>> tried control s >>>> tried >>>> alt control s >>>> also tried alt windows s >>>> nothing will turn it on. >>>> is there a trick to getthing this talking? >>>> I want to give ubuntu a try >>>> I gave up on sonar for the moment. >>>> Hank >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Blinux-list mailing list >>>> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list