Re: [orca-list] defined text boxes

[Mike Pedersen <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>]

Hello Hermann, Scott and I have been talking about this off list.  He's
working on improving the move to next object to be I think what we
really need whichh is quite similar to what you describe.  
stay tuned
Mike
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 21:24 +0200, hermann wrote:
> Hello Scott,
> I guess you are refering to my mail, where I asked about your
> experimental feature.
> I was talking about a defined block of text to search for, and I refer
> to features known in Windows screen readers, such as Jaws and Window
> Eyes.
> In Jaws you can search for a block of text that contains a defined
> number of characters, in Jaws the default value is >=25.
> This makes it easier to search the webpage for longer text areas, such
> as newspaper articles or product descriptions. Such blocks are not
> always introduced by headings or frames.
> We discussed this a few weeks ago, and the users opinions were devided:
> Some think that this could be useful, others opposed it, by stating that
> they never used it even in Windows screen readers. I belong to the first
> group and I'm using it extensively when working in Windows.
> Hermann
>
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