Re: [orca-list] keys in conflict with XUL application keys

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Milan.

Thanks for trying the patch!  What that patch does is simply remove the 
conflict with the XUL application keys.  In other words, with that 
patch, you should be able to use Firefox's built-in caret navigation to 
move around the content, and Orca should speak and braille your location.

> contents.  I can move the caret over the first line, but I can't move it
> to the following lines, so the text is inaccessible.  You can try it
> here: http://www.freebsoft.org/~pdm/test3.xul

I just tried it without Orca running (i.e. just with FF caret browsing 
enabled) and I couldn't arrow among the description text.  Can you?

It seems that XUL descriptions are labels, and labels are static text 
that is not intended to be arrowed around in. That's not an Orca thing; 
it's a Firefox/XUL thing.  Still, we've got inaccessible text, so what 
do we do?

On the Orca side of things, we can see about at least getting flat 
review to provide access to that text.  That's not the same as moving 
the caret within it though.  Since we had to implement our own caret 
navigation in Orca to deal with other element issues, there's a chance 
that I might be able to apply what is in place <strike>hack</strike> 
convince Orca to navigate within descriptions as well.  However, I'm 
afraid I might not get to that immediately.

If you really want your application to be arrow-around-able, perhaps 
instead of a description you might want to use a textbox instead?  I 
found a hack here: 
http://xulsolutions.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-handle-text-and-keep-your.html

Take care.
Joanie