Key echo preferences

Enable key echo

Controls whether key presses are spoken.

Default value: Checked

Enabling this shows additional checkboxes to fine-tune which keys are echoed:

Enable alphabetic keys

a, b, c, etc.
Default value: Checked

Enable numeric keys

1, 2, 3, etc.
Default value: Checked

Enable punctuation keys

%, ;, ?
Default value: Checked

Enable space

Spacebar
Default value: Checked

Enable modifier keys

Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Meta
Default value: Checked

Enable function keys

F1 to F12
Default value: Checked

Enable action keys

Backspace, Delete, Return, Esc, Tab, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End
Default value: Checked

Enable navigation keys

Left, Right, Up, Down (Also applies when Orca Modifier is held down)
Default value: Not checked

Enable non-spacing diacritical keys

dead keys used for accented letters
Default value: Not checked

Enable echo by character

Causes Orca to announce the character inserted, not just the key pressed.

Default value: Not checked

Note

Key echo announces what you pressed.
Character echo announces what was inserted.

Enable echo by word or sentence

Echo by word

announces the word you just typed

Echo by sentence

announces the sentence you just typed

Default value: Not checked