Re: [orca-list] Many Ideas, Issues and Qs: Newb, Very Long

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

Welcome to the list.  My apologies for taking so long to get to you -- I 
tend to be overwhelmed when I see very long messages containing many 
questions and comments across a wide range of topics.  Those messages 
usually end up in my "get to this when I get a significant chunk of 
time" pile.  Unfortunately, my "significant chunk of time" segments 
don't occur very frequently.

Luckily, we have a lot of really good community members on this list 
that already answered a lot of your questions.  :-)

> q2. Can I bind a shortcut key to launch Orca without having to use the
> run box for the job? I've looked and Gnome launchers appear to have no
> facility to bind hotkeys to them directly, arrtgh.

The Orca WIKI has some information on this:

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

In addition, we've been experimenting with adding a checkbox to Orca 
itself to avoid all this confusion:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448817

> i6. I do use magnification but would find it more helpful if the focus
> could be highlighted by Orca.

We are tracking a limited form of this in some way:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363793

However, we're looking to the GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility 
magnification task to provide us with a 'highlight' API to let us do a 
much better job.

> Also in the list view I'm faced with info overload and get annoyed by
> the closed and expanded prompts fairly quickly.

Can you provide a specific example so we can be sure what you're running 
into?

<lots of ideas omitted>

> Well, hope some of these ideas of mine prove useful.
> I'm not saying these are the right let alone the only way to go about
> these problems I've highlighted, just ideas I've gotten rather attached
> to for some reason.

You definitely have a lot of ideas.  Certainly more than we can 
accomplish on our own.  Since you're a programmer, you're welcome to 
help us --- what better way to ensure it's done right?  :-)

Will