Re: [orca-list] gnome shell, orca and alt+escape

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, JosÃ.

I see the same behavior. Orca does announce windows when using ALT+Tab 
and ALT+` (the grav key, located above the tab key). If you do not know 
this, you use ALT+Tab to switch between applications, and you use ALT+` 
to switch between opened windows of a given application.

Here's a small example. Say that my open windows are as follows:

*One Terminal window
*Two Firefox windows (one opened to DistroWatch.com and the other opened 
to Linux Journal's Web site)
*Thunderbird

Say I am in the terminal window, but I want to get to the Firefox window 
which displays the Linux Journal Web site. I would use ALT+Tab to switch 
to the Firefox application listing, and when there I would use ALT+` to 
switch between the different open instances (or windows) of Firefox 
until I arrive at the Linux Journal page.

Orca announces things in this scenario, but not when using ALT+Escape. I 
actually did not know about the ALT+Escape key combination until you 
mentioned it here on the list.

I apologize if the information which I just mentioned was something 
which you already knew about.

Take care.

On 10/03/2012 10:49 PM, Josà Vilmar EstÃcio de Souza wrote:
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> Hi all.
>
> Today I decided to experiment gnome shell in my Ubuntu 12.04, and to
> my surprise, I found that the accessibility is excellent.
> CONGRATULATIONS!
>
> A small problem is related to the behaviour of the alt+esc key.
> If I learned correctly, the alt+esc can b used to switch between windows.
> The problem is that  orca doesn't announce the name of the window
> while cycling between windows using alt+esc. The announce is made only
> after I release the alt key. This is not good  if I have many windows
> opened.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Thanks.
>
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