Re: a couple of things about openoffice writer

[Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs comcast net>]

Hi Yannick.  

To follow-up on the other issue you raised:

> Moreover, another thing, when we move char by char and we go to the 
> end-of-line i.e. after the last char, Orca says the last character of 
> the line, as Jaws for Windows says "Blank" or "Empty", which is better I 
> think.

I took the liberty of taking your report and filing a bugzilla bug on
it.  Hope you don't mind!!  Here is the current status:

A patch has been checked in so that Orca will no longer repeat the last
character when you reach the end of the line in OpenOffice.org.  That
behavior is really confusing -- as you pointed out.

Currently, Orca will treat the end of line character as it does in other
applications (e.g. Gedit), namely not say anything when you move to that
character but announce "new line" when you move beyond it to the
following line.  Personally, I think that can still be a bit confusing.
Your suggestion of having Orca indicate the end of line makes sense.
Thus the bug I filed has become an RFE (request for enhancement), and
changing Orca to indicate the end of line is on the to-do list.

To get the first fix now, you can check out Orca from CVS HEAD.  If you
prefer to wait for the next release, Orca v2.17.5 should be out January
7th and will include that fix.

To follow the history and current status of the bug-turned-RFE, take a
look at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387556

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Take care.
Joanie