Orca is designed to work with applications and toolkits that support the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI). These applications include the Oracle Solaris Desktop and its bundled applications: OpenOffice, Firefox, and the Java platform.
A tabbed dialog window similar to the Orca Configuration dialog is displayed with the following differences:
No initial General pane.
The Speech System and Speech Synthesizer options on the Speech pane are inactive.
Any application-specific key bindings appear at the top of the list on the Key Bindings pane.
A new application-specific settings pane might appear at the end of the standard set of tabs. Press the End key from the tab list to go directly to the right-most tab.
Adjust your application-specific settings. For example, you might have Key Echo disabled generally in Orca but would like to specifically have it enabled for the GNOME Calculator application.
When you have customized your application settings, click OK.
These settings are written to your ~/.orca/app-settings directory in a file called APPNAME.py, where APPNAME is the name of the application.
Orca automatically writes these files. The contents of the file are overwritten each time you change your application settings for that application.
To retain any application-specific settings or code, copy them to a file called ~/.orca/app-settings/APPNAME-customizations.py. This file is automatically read when the settings for the application are loaded.