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Interracting with popups and application menus
Hello and welcome again!
If you have gone through the spoken tutorials '''First time with Orca''' and '''Adjusting speech through preferences dialog''', then you will now be comfortable enough with Orca's speech output. This tutorial takes a slightly different path.
Here we are going to look at how Orca responds to changes on the desktop.
The purpose of this tutorial is to get you acquainted with Orca's way of providing feedback to pop- ups and other events.
So let's first start Orca. Press Alt + f2 to get the Run dialog and then enter Orca.
If you recall what you learnt in the the tutorial "First time with Orca", then you will remember how we opened the text editor.
Press alt + f1 to open the applications menu.
Now press down arrow for Accessories menu.
Press right arrow for opening the sub menu.
Now keep pressing down arrow till you locate the "gedit" text editor. Press Enter to open the editor.
As you hear, Orca tells you that the text editor is open with an unsaved document. Wish to confirm?
Press "numpad insert" + "numpad enter".
Laptop users can press "Caps Lock" + "Front slash".
This key combination let's you read the title bar of a window. Now let's type a few lines in the text editor.
"Orca is a free and open source screen reader.
It reads not just text but also other attributes in and around the focus. Orca lets you do all the desktop activities without sighted assistance." Ok, now let's see how to save this file.
Every application has a menu bar at the top of the screen.
Press alt + f to access the file menu.
You can press the down arrow key till you locate the Save option.
You also heard Orca telling you the shortcut key which you can use next time.
Hit Enter and you will hear the "Save" dialog open.
As you can see, Orca has responded by telling you the current location.
Orca just told us that we are focused on the field to enter the name of the file. By default the name is "Unsaved document 1" as you just heard.
You can press Backspace just once to erase the default value.
Well you also heard Orca telling us that the value was selected.
That's why pressing backspace once deleted it.
Now type whatever name you like, I will save it as "Firstfile" and hit Enter.
Your document will be saved in the home folder.
You can confirm this by reading the title bar.
If you have followed this tutorial carefully, you would recall that you can press numpad insert + numpad enter on the desktop, or Caps Lock + Front slash on the laptop.
So far we have seen how to create a file.
Now let's see how we can read the contents in the file.
You already know that up and down arrow can read the document line by line, but you can read the entire document in one go.
Press ctrl + Home to go to the top of the file.
Now press the numpad "+" on the desktop.
You can also use Caps Lock + semi colon on a laptop layout.
As you could hear, Orca read the entire document we had created earlier.
But what if we add some more content to this file and quit the editor without saving the changes? Well, let's see how Orca responds to such a situation.
Add another line to the file.
Press Enter and type a new line -
"This is another line to the existing file."
Now go to the file menu by "alt + f" shortcut.
Now press up arrow to locate the Quit option.
Hit Enter to close the text editor.
There you are! The desktop flagged a warning through a pop-up.
As you can hear Orca also reads any message that comes up during an activity. In this case Orca is telling us that desktop has warned us about the unsaved file.
You can press tab around to see that there are close without saving, cancel and save buttons. Let us hit Enter or Spacebar on the Save button.
You will realise that the text editor is closed.
Now let's find where our file is and try opening it again.
All files and folders for your user account is found in the "Home" folder.
To access the "Home" folder, you are required to press alt + f1 and move to the Places menu by using right arrow.
Now press the down arrow once to locate the Home folder.
Hit Enter.
In your Home folder you can use the arrow keys to navigate the files and folders.
The other way is to type the first few characters on the board. Like a dictionary every character you type takes you closer to the item you want to access.
So, I type 'F' and then locate the file using down arrow to find my file.
I will hit Enter to open the file.
You can see the file opened in the text editor. So you now know how to create and read files. We will see more things in the coming tutorials.
This is Duhita and Sameer, signing off.
Spoken Tutorials are a part of the Talk to a Teacher project, supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT coordinated by www.spoken-tutorial.org and developed by IIT Bombay. More information on the same is available at the following link http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT- Intro.