Re: [orca-list] progress of progress bars is not reported., is it a known thing?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

I have some questions about reporting the status of GUI widgets as you
encounter them in flat review.  Right now, Insert+KP_5 should report the
status of controls.  It will tell you, for example, the percentage value
of a progress bar if flat review is currently on a progress bar.  In
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434594, however, Halim states
he'd rather have this functionality be more obvious, and it is also
missing braille.

Flat review right now is mostly about moving around the text in a
window: movement by lines, words, and characters.  To date, we've viewed
it mostly as an 'escape' mode to handle ill-behaved applications.  That
is, well-behaved applications should be easily accessible without the
need for flat review.  We also understand flat review is useful for
other things, however, such as exploring the layout of a window.

If the announcement of widget state were to be included in flat review,
I'd like to hear more about suggestions for the desired user experience.
For example:

1) Should there be commands to move to next/previous widget?  If so,
what should the keystroke be (Insert+Tab, Insert+Shift+Tab)?  What
should the braille input gestures be?  Does the user get different
behavior if a widget can or cannot accept keyboard focus?

2) What happens when you first enter/leave a widget when flat reviewing?
Should Orca present the entire status for the widget?  Do you get
different behavior if you entered/left while moving by
character/word/line?

3) When you're navigating by character/word/line while in one widget
(e.g., you're navigating the "Show Orca main window" text for the
checkbox in the Orca preferences dialog), what should the desired
behavior be?

Thanks!

Will

> Hav a look to bug
> #434594
> 
> Thanks
> Halim
> 
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