Re: [orca-list] Headingslist, and Linkslist updated, plus navigation menu

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Headings are all properly reported now.

-- rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <bhawkeslewis googlemail com>
To: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
Cc: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc mit edu>; <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Headingslist, and Linkslist updated, plus 
navigation menu


> Hermann wrote:
> > Rich Caloggero wrote:
> > > OOPS, I guess I didn't send the link ...
> > > http://www.mit.edu/~rjc/navigationBundle.xpi
> > >
> > > I'd like to hear other's thoughts on a treeview containing the headings. 
> > > My
> > > personal preference is that it causes me to do too much navigation and
> > > takes
> > > my focus away from actually digesting the content of the headings
> > > themselves. I find that just getting site authors to use headings is a 
> > > big
> > > enough challenge; to actually expect that the heading levels will follow
> > > some logic is perhaps asking too much. I find that some people will use
> > > heading levels for type size, for instance. Wired does it: if you look 
> > > at
> > > their homepage, they have category names wrapped in h5, then one or two
> > > headlines under that category wrapped in h1. This makes little semantic
> > > sense, so the only thing I can surmise is that they want the headline to
> > > stand out more than the category name.
> > The fact is, that headings of level 1 are not shown, neither with title, 
> > nor with their level number. I think knowing the level is sometimes 
> > useful, especially when I know which level the needed headings have. For 
> > example: The feeds of my daily newspaper show the article's headlines on 
> > level 3. So I mustn't care about other headings.
> > But besides that the display of the headings and the navigation is not 
> > very reliable. I think someone already wrote about it.
> > Furthermore it seems that the extension slows down the performance of 
> > Orca in FF.
>
> From a brief look at the code
>
> > And a few additional observations:
> > I've tested your extension under Windows with Jaws and FF 2.x, and it 
> > behaves totally different:
> > No hotkey works. The invokation of the links and headings list is much 
> > faster than in Linux.
> > So at the current stage of development we cannot think about the 
> > replacement of Orca's structural navigation.
> > Hermann
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