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

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Do 10. Apr 2008 um 15:02:52 schrieb Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>:
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> > > 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.
>
> I would be interested in the opinions of others, but in general I don't like
> the idea of having multiple modes. Instead, I would suggest the following:
>
> Whenever table navigation commands are issued, display the cell contents in
> braille, as now. If the previous line BRLTTY command is used, display the
> headers and the line/column position. If the next line command is used while
> displaying the headers, go back to the cell content.
>
> If the focus is moved by a navigation command other than a table navigation
> command, just display the cell content, on the basis that the user is
> navigating the content as text that happens to be laid out in a table, not as
> a table structure.
 
But isn't that a specific mode too? It also requires switching the braille 
presentation to different layouts. So what's the difference?

> Mapping the table navigation commands to BRLTTY commands would also be
> possible, so that the keyboard wouldn't need to be used.
 
Is this possible in Orca? As far as I've understood Orca's braille concept 
it follows the brltty commands, so there are no unique braille comands 
from inside Orca.
Hermann