Orca/C2/Desktop-Navigation/English

Visual cue	Narration
Display	Welcome to the tutorial on Desktop navigation with Orca
Show Slide Learning Objectives	In this tutorial we will learn : What is Orca screen reader? Unity interface used on the Ubuntu distro of GNU/Linux Desktop navigation using Orca
Show Slide System Requirements	To record this tutorial, I am using: Orca screen reader on Ubuntu 12.04 Operating System.
What is Orca?	Let us begin with an introduction. Orca is a powerful state-of-the-art It is Free and Open Source screen reader for the GNU/Linux based desktop. Thus all personal and professional computing is possible for a blind person. A blind person can thus work without sighted assistance.
Starting Orca	When you start Ubuntu for the first time, you will have to activate Orca. Machine will boot.
	A drum roll sound indicates that you are on the login prompt Enter the password Press ctrl + s to have Orca started. Now, every time you boot your machine Orca will come up talking.
Unity in Ubuntu with Orca	Ubuntu offers 2 varieties of desktops in 12.04 like Unity 2D and Unity 3D. For best accessibility, you will choose Unity 2D.
Selecting desired Unity	For this, press shift + tab. That is, hold down the shift key and press the tab key once You will hear Orca announcing that you are on the Sessions options button.
	Press enter to activate the same. Now, press the same shift + tab key combination again. You just heard Orca announcing that you are on the Ubuntu 2D option. Press enter to select it
Logging in	Come back again to your password prompt. Now enter the password for your user name.
Starting Orca after Desktop load	10 seconds is required for the desktop to settle and all icons appear properly. You remember that Orca spoke at the login prompt. But again you have to select Orca for login-time selected desktop
	Let's activate the run dialog by pressing alt + f2 and then typing Orca. As you can hear Orca has started. Orca is now ready to provide audio assistance for all our activities.
Concept of Launcher pane	Let's take a real world situation. Generally when you work in an office, you have a few things ready on the desk.
	Launcher pane is the section of the desktop It hosts your most frequently needed applications for quick access. Of course you can customize this as well.
Using Launcher pane	For accessing Launcher pane on the desktop,press the alt + f1 key combination. As you can hear Orca said that we are in the Launcher pane.
Navigating Launcher pane Home Folder	Let's use the down arrow to navigate the items one by one. Press the down arrow once. You hear Orca telling us that you are on the Home folder.
	Home is the section of your storage disk where all your data is stored. This includes your Documents, Music, Videos etc. Wish to confirm, ok.
Navigating Launcher pane Documents	Press the right arrow once. As you can hear, Orca tells us that you are on the Documents icon.
Navigating Launcher pane Downloads	Press the down arrow again. Now you are on the Downloads icon.
Navigating Launcher pane Music	Pressing down arrow again takes us to the icon for the Music folder.
Navigating Launcher pane Firefox	Well, let's move back to our main Launcher section by pressing the left arrow. Now press the down arrow again. We are now focused on the Firefox web browser.
	Both in the case of Home folder and Firefox, Orca also said not running. It means the item we have currently focused on is not active.
Navigating Launcher pane Libre office	Thus, press the down arrow once for moving to Libre office writer icon. Press the down arrow again. You now here Orca telling us that the cursor is on Libre office calc. Libre office writer is the word processor that comes with Ubuntu by default. Similarly Calc is the default spreadsheet application.
Other Applications in Launcher pane	You can navigate the entire Launcher pane by using the down arrow. You could hear names such as Libre office Impress, Ubuntu software center, Ubuntu1 System settings.
	Impress is the default software for presentations. .
	Ubuntu software center provides you to download and install applications. These applications which might have not come with Ubuntu by default.
	Ubuntu1 is the free cloud service It provides 5 gb of online storage space which can sync with your Home folder.
	System settings is just what you expect it to do. It is the section through which you can manage all the settings. Referred to as the Control Panel in other free and proprietary OS.
	Finally we found 2 other options namely the Workspace and Trash. Workspace is the icon which helps you to run more than 1 desktop instance at a time. It is an advanced feature and will be covered in some later tutorial.
	Trash is the place where you can find all the deleted files and folders. You can have them back also. These are the set of default applications. Ubuntu developers place them on the Launcher pane by default.
Position based shortcuts for the applications.	Now let's move in the reverse direction Use the up arrow and come back at the Home folder icon. Press enter to open your Home folder.
	Use the right arrow to locate folders such as Desktop Documents Downloads etc, one at a time. To achieve this press the right arrow once for locating every folder.
Opening more than one instance of an application	Now if you press alt + f1 and down arrow, Orca will respond differently. As you heard, now Orca announces Home folder ans says one window is open Press escape to close the Launcher Return to Home folder. Interesting right?
Position based shortcuts for the applications.	You can use the dynamic shortcut keys assigned by the desktop also.
Shortcut to Home	First close the Home folder you just opened. We will open it again, this time using the shortcut key. To close the Home folder press the alt+ f4 key combination. Do you remember on which position was the Home folder icon in the Launcher pane?
Where is Home in Launcher pane?	Well you can confirm it yourself by opening the Launcher pane. Press alt + f1 as you have been doing. Press down arrow once. You can observe that Home is the first item here.
How to open Home with shortcut?	Ubuntu desktop uses super key also called as the Windows key It uses the number corresponding to the position of the item as its shortcut. This means that the shortcut for Home folder must be Windows key + 1.
	Firstly, let's close the opened Launcher pane by pressing escape key. Now let's hold down the Windows key and press 1 with it. Indeed you can hear Orca telling us that the Home folder has opened. Meaning the shortcut key we guessed was correct!
For other application	Thus see every application's position in the Launcher pane Then use that number with the Windows key. Now press alt+f4 to close the Home folder.
Show Slide Summary	So in this tutorial we have seen Basic overview of the 2d desktop on Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system, Orca functioning ,using and customizing the Launcher pane. Thus we can have Orca in the Launcher pane also than typing through run dialog.
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Show Acknowledgement Slide Acknowledgement	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this Mission is available at: http://spoken-tutorial.org\NMEICT-Intro
Thanks for joining	That’s it for this tutorial. In the next tutorial on detailed desktop overview, you will learn just that. Thank you for watching.

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