Re: [orca-list] Possible fix: stop orca from reading long strings of cgi variables on web pages

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Doug.

On 04/18/2015 09:51 PM, Doug Smith wrote:

> Is that stuff actually visible on the web page, or where does orca get
> it from?

What Orca does when presenting links is to look for something meaningful
to present (like the displayed text or name or description). Eventually
it falls back upon the associated URL. Which, at least for links which
don't have crazy-long CGI arguments, actually works fairly well. You
have just found a case where it doesn't work well at all. I'll see what
I can do to minimize the spoken spam.

Independent of that, if you get an ad blocker, you'll have fewer of
these creatures to navigate through. Non-advertising links tend to have
displayed text, names, descriptions, and if all else fails a URL from
which Orca can pull something meaningful. Programmatically-inserted ads
do not. So I should be able to make these links less spammy; I doubt I
can make them more meaningful. And without an ad blocker, they'll still
be in the tab order, the list of links dialog, etc.

Thanks for the report!
--joanie