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orca(1)								       orca(1)

NAME
       orca - a screen reader / magnifier

SYNOPSIS
       orca [option...]

DESCRIPTION
       orca  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.

AUTHOR
       orca 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)

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