Initial release : September 3, 2006
Stable release : 3.12.0 / 24 March 2014; 29 days ago
Development status : Active
Operating system : Unix-like
Type : Screen reader
License : GNU LGPL (version 2.1)
Website : projects.gnome.org/orca/
Orca is a free and open source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice etc. As of GNOME 2.16, Orca is the default screen reader of the GNOME platform, replacing Gnopernicus. Orca is provided by default on a number of operating system distributions, including Solaris, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu.
\Tech Tip: The name Orca, which is another term for a killer whale, is a nod to the long-standing tradition of naming screen readers after aquatic creatures, including the Assistive Technology product on Windows called JAWS (which stands for Job Access With Speech), the early DOS screen reader called Flipper, and the UK vision impairment company Dolphin Computer Access.
For more information please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29
Best Regards
Bhavya Shah
Stable release : 3.12.0 / 24 March 2014; 29 days ago
Development status : Active
Operating system : Unix-like
Type : Screen reader
License : GNU LGPL (version 2.1)
Website : projects.gnome.org/orca/
Orca is a free and open source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice etc. As of GNOME 2.16, Orca is the default screen reader of the GNOME platform, replacing Gnopernicus. Orca is provided by default on a number of operating system distributions, including Solaris, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu.
\Tech Tip: The name Orca, which is another term for a killer whale, is a nod to the long-standing tradition of naming screen readers after aquatic creatures, including the Assistive Technology product on Windows called JAWS (which stands for Job Access With Speech), the early DOS screen reader called Flipper, and the UK vision impairment company Dolphin Computer Access.
For more information please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29
Best Regards
Bhavya Shah
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