Re: [orca-list] progress of progress bars is not reported., is it a known thing?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

D'Oh!  Sorry -- the default Orca modifier for laptop bindings is
Caps_Lock, not Insert.  

Will

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 11:35 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > I have some questions about reporting the status of GUI widgets as you
> > > encounter them in flat review.  Right now, Insert+KP_5 should report the
> > > status of controls.  It will tell you, for example, the percentage value
> > > of a progress bar if flat review is currently on a progress bar.
> > uhh?  since when is this working? I am too happy to know that
> > progressbars are indeed reported.
>
> I think it should have been in there since almost the day flat review
> was written.  :-)  The laptop binding should be Insert+Ctrl+k.  I'm
> curious, however, if this should be bound to the object-specific
> behaviors of the "Where am I" key.  In flat review, "Where am I" would
> present information about the current flat review item; in focus
> tracking mode, "Where am I" would present information about the object
> with keyboard focus.  
>  
> > what I would suggest is that there should be some kind of keyboard
> > commands that can do the following.
> > 1, read the status bar and similar itoms on the screen.
>
> Rapidly pressing Insert+KP_Enter (Ctrl+Insert+k for laptop) twice should
> speak the status bar, if one exists.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Will