orca not reading some administration screens

[Lukas Loehrer]

Pranav Lal writes ("orca not reading some administration screens"):
> I am running Ubuntu 7.04 in a virtual machine.  When I start orca, I find
> that it does not read certain system administration screens.  For example,
> if I try the menu item labelled "networks", I am able to enter my password
> and, after that, orca does not read any text on the screen.  This is a
> nuisance since I need to configure some of these settings.  

This is a well known problem. Try the following:

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin

Best regards, Lukas