Re: [orca-list] Table headers and coordinates in braille

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Do 10. Apr 2008 um 09:31:44 schrieb Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>:
> While navigating tables in Firefox, Orca speaks the headers associated with
> the current cell and announces its coordinates.
>
> I haven't been able to find a means of accessing this information via the
> braille display. If there is none, I am tempted to submit a bug report, either
> as a note to one of the existing braille interface bugs, or separately.
 
I don't think that this is possible, since the braille display shows the 
actual cell.

> A question to other users: how, ideally, should tables be presented in
> braille?
>
> I can think of various possibilities, but let's hear from others first.
 
One possibility is to create a "structured mode", known from Jaws. In this 
case all the information of the actual cell is presented in one row on the 
display. It should be possible to temporarily switch to that mode, or 
activate it permanently in applications where it seems useful.
Note: I don't know whether such a feature would be supported by brltty's 
brlapi, since Windows screen readers come with their own braille drivers 
and 
don't have to rely on external programs or interfaces.
Hermann