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Learning Objectives

In this tutorial we will learn : Using Libre Office with Orca screen reader

System Requirements

To record this tutorial, I am using: Orca screen reader on Ubuntu 12.04 Operating System. Libre office

 6 tutorials in the first time with Orca section. 

• Press alt + f1
• Keep pressing the down arrow till you locate the office sub menu.
• Open the sub menu

• Press the up arrow till you locate the Libre office word processor and

hit enter.

• So now we hear Orca telling us that Libre office writer is opened with a blank document.
• The actual name of the word processor is "Libre Office Writer".

Actually, Orca did tell us that the document is called Untitled1.

• Let's create a title for our report.
• A heading is generally aligned to the centre

Text for a title is mostly in bold letters.

• Press Control + e to switch the word processor into center alignment mode.

As you heard, Orca responded by saying "centered on". Similarly you can press control + r for right alignment, control + L for left alignment and control + j for justified.

• Yet the change in the alignment is reported to us by Orca .
• Now whatever you type will appear at the center.

• We will also turn on the bold lettering mode.
• For this we will press control + b.
• There you are, Orca responded back by telling us that the bold mode is on.

Hit enter 2 times to create some blank space.

Now we are going to write the actual content.

Press Control + l. You heard Orca telling us that the center alignment mode is off and now the text we type will be aligned left.

Well, Orca has a keyboard command for this too.

Press up arrow till you hear our first line that says "Orca, a FOSS based screen reader".

• I will press the key combination Insert + f to hear the formatting information.
• Laptop users will have to replace insert with capslock.

Wow, so Orca tells us that the current word in focus is aligned center, The size of the text is 12 point and that it is bold.

Let's see how Orca assists us to accomplish this task.

you will remember that

• we use the command Shift + End to select a line.
• So lets use that same command here.
• As you heard, Orca informs us that the line is selected.

• Between the right side control and alt key .
• Now what we have is a popup menu which provides us many options.

• Now hit the right arrow to open the submenu.
• Keep pressing down arrow untill you hear 14 as the size.
• Now hit enter to set this size.

• Press the down arrow once and come back to the previous line using up arrow.
• Now press insert + f.
• So Orca now tells us the formatting information
• we can figure out that the font size has indeed changed!

• You can open the file menu by pressing Alt + f
• Then locate the 'Save' button.
• This is what we did in the copy paste tutorial.

Press Control + s to open the save dialog.

• The default file name is Untitled1 .
• Since it is selected, we can press Backspace once to delete that name
• Now type whatever name pleases you.
• I will enter “Orca_report” in this case.

• The default format is ODT meaning Open Document Text .

We can save it in different formats which outside the scope of this tutorial.

• Hit Enter to confirm the name and save the file.

Go to file menu and press the up arrow to find the exit option.

Summary

So in this tutorial we have seen : Orca helps us to make neatly formatted documents.

• Orca functioning ,using and customizing the Launcher pane.
• Thus we can have Orca in the Launcher pane also than typing through run dialog.

• Watch the video available at the link shown below
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Acknowledgement

• Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project
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• That’s it for this tutorial.
• In the next tutorial on detailed desktop overview, you will learn just that.
• Thank you for watching.