Some help needed to adapt the JAWS and NVDA shortcuts to Orca

Patrick d'Emmabuntüs patrick at emmabuntus.org
Sat Dec 16 11:18:42 GMT 2023


Hello the Orca team,

I am the lead developer of the Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution 
Emmabuntüs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmabunt%C3%BCs

We have been working for years to implement Linux-based computer rooms 
in Togo 
https://emmabuntus.org/numerique-libre-au-service-de-la-jeunesse-et-de-leducation-au-togo/

For our new project in Togo, in collaboration with YovoTogo and the 
Togolese national association of disabled people, we want to equip blind 
people with Emmabuntüs and the Orca screen reader.
And to ease the transition for blind people from their current JAWS or 
NVDA solution based on Windows, we would like to enable within Orca the 
keyboard shortcuts used by default by JAWS and NVDA.

Do you already have this type of configuration in the 
~/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf file?

Otherwise, could you help us to find the definition of the keybindings 
contained in this file?

As the voice synthesis is going to be in French language, we plan to 
install the mbrola and svox pico voice synthesizers. Could you please 
tell us if these are the best quality voice synthesizers that can be 
installed in Orca under Debian 12?

We are currently preparing our first demonstrator, which will be 
submitted to the people in charge of training and support for blind 
people in Togo, and we hope that our solution will suit them, so that we 
can obtain their validation and deploy it in Togo.

Thank you in advance for your your help and support.

Best regards,

Patrick

PS: If you would like to find out more about what we do and who we are, 
I suggest you read our latest interview on our actions : 
https://emmabuntus.org/linux-format-287/




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