Re: Orca Speaking blank lines

["lazzaro" <lazzaro rcn com>]

I agree, a screen reader should say "blank" when it encounters a blank
line in a document, web page, etc. It should also do this with other
types of documents, like spreadsheets when you move to a cell containing
no entry. If the screen reader says nothing when it encounters a blank
line or cell, this always leaves the user wondering if something went
wrong.


Joe Lazzaro


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org]
On Behalf Of Willem van der Walt
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:47 PM
To: Mike Pedersen
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Orca Speaking blank lines


Yes, I think blank lines should be spoken as the word "blank" when
moving 
through whatever line by line.
Depending on punctioation settings, one will hear nothing when you get 
onto a line with e.g. dashes or underlines.
May be there are some situations where one does not this, but i cannot 
think of any.Regards, Willem


On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Mike Pedersen wrote:

> Hi Nolan, thanks for your comments please see my response below.
> > But, anyway, I experienced a minor annoyance for which I have a  
> > patch, but before submitting it to bugzilla I want to make sure a)  
> > there isn't some other way/good reason for things being done this  
> > way, and b) that I've in fact made the change in the best place for

> > it. :) When editing documents, I was annoyed by Orca not speaking  
> > blank lines, because when I press a key and don't receive any  
> > feedback I generally assume that nothing happens--I've reached the  
> > top/bottom of the list/whatever and focus doesn't wrap, there is no

> > valid use for that key, etc.
> >   
>
>
> This is a feature that we plan on implementing for the next release of

> orca.   I had intended to make this a user preference to be changed in

> the config UI.  I wonder, do users think that blank lines should be 
> spoken by default?  Also, should this even be a preference or do users

> always want this functionality? 
> thanks
> Mike
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