Re: [orca-list] Ring in the New Year by typing numbers!

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:23:09AM EST, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Steve, all.
>
> On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 10:01 -0800, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > While talking about toggling of the num lock key, I also notice that
> > the Caps lock key does not speak the status of that toggle either.
>
> See my response to Paul. For what it's worth, I too have been bitten by
> that very thing. Key echo makes me crazy since I can touch type quickly
> and accurately (modulo the numeric row). Thus for me, key echo is never
> enabled. And this raises an interesting question: If expert users and
> the developer herself make this mistake, maybe we should be doing
> something differently within Orca so that a user has to actively disable
> the speaking of locking keys. I dunno. What say you all?

Now that I've read this thread, I realize that this has bitten me too. I always turn off key echo, because I 
too can touch type and hate it. Its worth noting that with NVA, so far as I can remember, turning off key 
echo doesn't turn off locking keys, same with VoiceOver in OS X. I think that locking key echo should still 
be enabled, unless the user explicitly wants it turned off.

Luke