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5.2. Assistive Living for Specially abled

5.2.1. BOSS ORCA for Disabled [Chennai]

Orca is a free, open source, flexible, extensible, and powerful assistive technology for people
with visual impairments which default bundled in BOSS OS. Using various combinations of
speech synthesis, Braille, and magnification, Orca helps provide access to applications and
toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g. the GNOME desktop)

Features;
• Screen reader enables non-visual access to standard applications in the GNOME Desktop
by using speech and braille output
• Magnifier provides automated focus tracking and full-screen magnification to aid low-
vision user
• Voice type: Default, Uppercase, Hyperlink, System
• Speech synthesizer: Default, espeak, dummy
• Control rate, pitch, volume, and person
• Verbosity (brief, verbose)
• Braille support
• Keyboard modes - desktop and laptop keyboard layouts
• Key echo
• Key bindings
• Pronunciation dictionary
• Text attributes

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