Re: [orca-list] Evolution with new refactor?

[Mike Pedersen <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>]

Hi Jacob, 
> I've noticed something interesting with the recent beginning of the
> speech refactor. Orca is now acting slightly different in evolution when
> in the message list and in other tables. The old behavior was to speak
> the line going across, announcing each field in turn. Now, however, it
> is speaking the column names in between rather than just reading across
> the table. so, for instance, I'll here:
> From column header, Willy Walker, Subject column header, Flag day for
> orca
> Before this, however, the column headers were not announced unless I
> moved across the table with the left and right arrows to look at them.
> Naturally, this only applies if you have table row speech set to speak
> the row, if it's set to speak cell this won't be noticed.
> This doesn't seem to happen in any other application so far except for
> Evolution. Is this a new feature that hasn't made it anywhere else, or
> is this an unintended little enhancement? :) I actually like this
> behavior, and hope it can be configured globally eventually.

This was not an intended change to Orca.  Personally I would not find
this an improvement as it adds a lot of verbosity.  That said, as you
would find it useful it sounds like a reasonable enhancement request to
make this togglable.  

Mike