[orca-list] Firefox 3.0 Questions

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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I have a question or two concerning navigating around with Firefox 3.0
and latest Orca (from over the weekend).

When using the arrow keys to read down line by line, I come across
lines with multiple links; no problem.  I can tab to the one I want.
Sometimes I have trouble getting to the first one on the line but I
can verify my position by hitting the numpad-enter key and Orca will
announce if I'm on a link, text field or whatever.  So far, so good.
My question is, I some times will hear entire words or strings of text
spoken when arrowing over the line a letter at a time; that is,
pressing lest or right arrow with no modifiers.  I usually will hear
single characters spoken but some of these times, I hear an entire
link spoken as a single unit.  What causes this? I don't really have
problems with this but curiousity has the best of me.  Is this some
kind of information exposed for accessibility purposes?

The other question and possibly easier to ask, how can one quickly get
past a bunch of navigation links if there's no heading elements on the
page? Some sites now days are not using traditional <h1-6> elements
and are probably using CSS markup instead.  In Window-Eyes under MS
Windows, you can type a letter x which will take you to the next
change in text formats; so if you're on a bunch of nav. links for
example, hitting x will take you to the next available plain text on a
page.  I have often used this to get me past  so many navigation links
at the top of pages without any headers.

Final question, Is there any way for Orca to notify the user when
he/she enters a table? I have found tables on a page rather by
accident where with I can then use the two dimensional navigation.
Then I hear reference to row and column numbers.

I think that's enough questions for now.:) I've been to several sites today
and access has been wonderful!

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