Re: [orca-list] 0's (was Re: form field structural navigation)

[Mike Pedersen <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>]

Hello Joanie, 
> It seems that if you hold down Insert and Shift and no other keys, and 
> you happen to be an in entry, you'll get 0's typed as if NumLock were 
> on.  This happens not just in Firefox, but everywhere:  Evolution, 
> Thunderbird, Gedit, OOo Writer, etc., etc.  In addition, it happens 
> whether Orca is running or not.  If you time it just right with the 
> addition of the Tab key, this problem does not occur.  Banking on the 
> user's "perfect timing" is no good.
>
> I'm not sure what to do here.  Rich and Lynn (and vacationing Will): Can 
> you think of anything clever we can do to handle this issue?  Mike, 
> would it make more sense to find a keybinding that doesn't have the 
> problem of getting us stuck in entries like F does?
I wonder if we might be able to handle insert+shift in a similar way to
how we handle capslock for laptop users?  I'm really not in favor of
changing this keystroke unless we absolutely can't find a fix for this
problem.  
Thanks hermann for the testing as I tested this on a laptop and never
saw the problem.  
Mike