Re: [orca-list] braille presentation of links

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

This sounds much more preferrable to me, even in firefox I am unclear as
to how a braille user is meant to know where the link really begins.
Using dots 7 and/or 8 will make it more like how someone visually knows
where the link is.

Possibly related to this, but may be more generally, it could be useful
if some of these marks could be made blinking, eg. the cursor might be
something someone would choose (like brltty does in a text console). It
can get a bit much when dots 7 and/or 8 are used and two of these
elements coincide, eg. the cursor is in an area where dots 7 and 8 are
already in use like the tab character at the moment.

Might it be worth considering reviewing all braille display stuff?

Michael Whapples
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:16 -0700, Mike Pedersen wrote:
> Hello all, we are currently expanding our link support from only firefox
> to include other applications such as openoffice, evolution, tomboy and
> so-on.  With that in mind we have a few questions on which we'd like
> community feedback.  
>
> Currently in firefox we put the word link after a hyper link In my
> opinion this will be a real problem when trying to show links in
> editable documents where layout and formatting are much more important. 
>
> We are currently adding the ability to use combinations of dots 7 and 8
> to underline hyperlink text.  This feature will be user-configurable.
> You will be able to choose none, dot 7, dot8, or both.  
>
> I would like to propose removing the word link from after the link text
> in favor of dots 7 and 8 under the text.  Do any of you really prefer
> keeping the word link?  If so, we could make it another radio button
> under the link marking area of the config ui.  
>
> Feedback or other possible solutions will be much appreciated.  
> Mike Pedersen