[orca-list] orca suggestions and a question

[Mike Reiser <metalhead1009000 gmail com>]

Hello,

I'm currently using orca and ubuntu in a virtual machine and have some 
suggestions and a question.  First the suggestions.  1.  In firefox, is 
there plans to make it so that you can press a keystroke and select from 
a list of elements on a page such as links?  I like to be able to jump 
to a link by this method for quicker brouzing. 

2.  i understand that it has been discussed on whether to present 
information on there own lines or not like is done in windows with other 
screen readers.  I think this should be  an option made available in the 
orca preferences so that one can select how they want things presented. 

3.  In listviews, we should be able to jump to items using first letter 
navigation.  At least on my system when I press a letter it brings up a 
text box.  Also I've noticed that orca doesn't always announce the 
number of items like it will say 0 items when there are more and when 
you press the arrow keys it doesn't speak and seems to hang.  That's all 
the suggestions I have a few bugs in ubuntu and will post them in 
another message.  Now here's my question. 

I'm using orca on ubuntu guttsy with voxin as my speech synth.  When I 
upgraded to orca 2.22.4 and restarted I lost all speech.  Is there 
something i need to do to insure I get speech when I upgraded?  i built 
the dependencies as written in te docs.  So far I'm very happy with orca 
and will be looking forward to testing it more.  Sorry for the lingth of 
this message.  Thanks,

Mike