Who do I tell

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

You could quit Orca with Insert-Q:

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

Then press Alt+F2, type "orca", and press Enter to start Orca again when 
you want to.

Or you could mute the volume temporarily. The Dell 1420 laptop includes 
a set of 7 media control button on the top right of the keyboard. 
There's a group of four on the left, then a group of three on the right. 
The first button in the group of three is the mute or unmute button. 
There is documentation of this, but Dell have relied on diagrams rather 
than putting it into a particularly accessible format:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1420/en/OM/about.htm#wp1187428

It might be worth raising that issue with their customer support.

You didn't say whether you have compiled the latest version of Orca, or 
are just running an old standard package:

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

If it's still a problem in the latest version, you should consider 
writing the Orca mailing list or filing a bug in the Gnome bug tracker:

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list

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

It may well turn out to be a problem with Thunderbird but the Orca 
developers are probably best placed to determine that.

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Herzog wrote:
> Who can I tell my bug discoveries to so my wining gets to the right
> UBUNTU guy(s) who could help fix them.?
> 
> I use Ubuntu and Orca, which came on my new Dell 1420 Laptop.
> 
> I have been getting updates, I don't know whether thru Dell,  Ubuntu, or ???
> So far they have been useful.  But to whom can I tell the changes that
> are bad, or still needed?
> 
> For instance, now there is no way I know of to shut Orca off.

> You wonder why I would want to!!
> The answer is that in Thunderbird, when I try to send mail, a box asks
> for THE My password, which is the one for the ISP.
> If ORCA is off, it will work, and I can send mail, or receive mail.; and
> I can check the box that says remember this password.
> I am sighted; a blind person could never cope.
> Now I can only cope by removing ORCA, signing on, remembering the
> password being checked, and then reinstall Orca.
> 
> Actually I don't cope, I just use my windows XP machine and JAWS, which
> works with thunderbird fairly well, but not yet good enough for a blind
> person, (my wife) to use. She uses Eudora.
> 
> I suspect that ORCA or maybe it is only the  echo part of it, 
> interacting, that might causes other boxes, maybe not only passwords, to 
> fail  Wil Herzog
> .
>