Orca FW: Speaking blank lines

["Ian Pascoe" <softy lofty ilp btinternet com>]

Mike

I have to echo (no pun intended)  the comments about the lack of blank line
statements from the screen reader.

I use a number of different readers on different machines of various age and
OS, and find it frustrating to know if the fact that I have had no response
from a key press is because it is the end / beginning of a document or just
a blank line.

My personal preference would be an always on.  If this could be incorporated
with an always on feature that says top of document or bottom would be
helpful too for the same reasons.  This would then ensure total
encapsulation of a document that is being read.

Ian



-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org]On
Behalf Of Mike Pedersen
Sent: 01 November 2006 18:46
To: Nolan Darilek
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Orca Speaking blank lines


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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