Re: [orca-list] Magnified Review Highlight Position?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Veli:

I've been able to reproduce this.  The highlight rectangle for Orca's 
flat review was actually a debugging tool to help me debug the flat 
review implementation.  :-)  It was really never meant to be something 
for users, but we keep running into users interested in it and wanting 
to enhance it.  What you're running into is us drawing on the display as 
though it were in 1X magnification, and I have no great ideas at this 
point for how we might make it work when magnification is in use (I 
would have thought it should have just worked).

On a related note, we've been hacking around with 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363793, but I think the right 
thing for us to do is to work with Kristian Lyngstøl (CC'd) to make sure 
we get a highlighting API in place with eZoom.

Will

Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:
> Hi list, 
> I've noticed the following issue using Orca in Ubuntu 8.04 with
> occasional   magnification:
>
> Say you set magnification  to 6x, full screen. NExt, go and open the
> gnome-terminal giving a command such as ls -l in there. Now use the
> laptop layout keys caps+o and caps+u to cursor recent  lines in review
> mode.
>
> I find that the review  highlight, which I find very important magnified
> so as to know where on screen I've been spoken stuff from, works as
> follows. Rather than showing the position the highlight would occupy on
> the magnified screen, and scrolling as needed to keep the highlight
> magnified, the width of the highlight, and its position are directly
> from the unmagnified screen, but confusingly superimposed on the
> magnified screen itself.
>
> This is really quite hard to explain non-visually. It is the same effect
> you might have if, say, you saw  the unmagnified mouse pointer position
> on the magnified screen. I've been able to workaround in some apps. In
> FireFox using about:config, I set up focused links to have different fg
> and bg colors, which works  great.
>
> Lastly, a bit of a usability suggestion:
> Would be great if I could determine the coordinates, width and hight of
> the customized magnified rectangle in percentages that would be
> resolution independent. Now  I need to do a bit of math in my head to
> ensure that it covers the width of the  screen and say about one fourth
> of the bottom of the screen. 
>
> PS: sorry for any major typos. I still have a hard time comprehending
> the US English of eSPeak. My last mail was actually pretyped in a
> Windows machine, but this one isn't, as I'm trying to get used to eSpeak
> after 10 years of Orpheus. Currently the efficiency is less than  about
> half and even the fastest speed is not fast enough for quick reading    .
>
>
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