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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>If you need the screenreader in order to turn the screenreader
on, this is a bit of a problem!</p>
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<p>One workaround is to use the run command (Alt F2 or Alt Space, I
think, on KDE?) and type orca and hit enter. Then you can use the
approach described below to make the setting permanent.</p>
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<p>This is clearly unsatisfactory. Surely, there should be some
standardisation for turning on the screenreader across different
environments.</p>
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<p>I've got to say that I find both major environments have issues
for the sight-impaired, particularly when it comes to system
settings, key bindings and endless dialog frustration. KDE still
has some big gaps too: okular and konsole became unusable for me
when I started using a screenreader, and I think that is still the
case?</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
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<p>Isabel</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/12/2025 14:10, Jeremy Whiting
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Oh, I
forgot to mention you also need to click the "Apply" button
since system settings don't take effect until you apply them.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Hello,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">On
plasma the trick is to open System Settings, then go to
Accessibility, then Screen Reader, then click "Enable
Screen Reader"</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">That
should get you going. I'm unfortunately unsure if there's
global keyboard combination you can use to do that.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">BR,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Jeremy
Whiting</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at
8:35 PM Nguyễn Ngọc Tiến <<a
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<div dir="ltr">hi all users, this is my first question in
the mailing list, today i have a question with orca
screenReader accessibility with kde plasma, i installed
kali linux and choose kde plasma when select desktop
environment, but when installation finished, i can not
turn on orca, i tried to press super+alt+s many times,
but orca does not speech anything. my question is: does
kde support orca screenReader?</div>
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