Re: [orca-list] Can we drop FireVox support in Orca?

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Mo 07. Apr 2008 um 09:41:40 schrieb Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:01:35AM -0500, Mike Reiser wrote:
> > The only reason why I trhink firevox should still be supported is that 
> > it provides a funciontion for listing elements on a page such as links 
> > in a list view at the press of a key.  THis is usefull for those of us 
> > that are use to windows screen readers and who like to use first letter 
> > navigation to find a link.  
>
> Doesn't the ' command in Firefox achieve this more effectively?
>
> The difference between ' and / is that the latter searches all text in the
> document, whereas the former is confined to links. To move focus to the text
> that matches the search, you can wait for the timeout to expire, which is too
> slow for my liking. This can be adjusted in the preferences though. Also,
> pressing the escape key has the same effect.
 
That's not what Mike means: Indeed, he thinks of a list command, provided in Windows screen readers, where 
you can list 
certain elements, such as links, headings, lists, tables etc.
Firevox provides this too. "." and "/" are designed to search the page for any text, no matter what typ it is.
You must therefore activate the "search as you type" function in the preferences menu, but this collides with 
the Orca 
navigation keys. So using this, you have to toggle Orca's navigation keys, which doesn't make much sense. I 
want to 
remind you, that Orca itself has a "find" function, by pressing Control+F. It's very nice, but I would like 
to have 
listing commands too. However, I don't think that we should keep Firevox only fo this reason. Due to the 
rapid 
development of Orca it seems indeed become obsolete.
Hermann