Re: [orca-list] Orca annoyences

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mike:

Just to follow up:

> 1.  If I follow a link in firefox and go back to the previous page, orca 
> doesn't take me to the place where I left off on the page, it takes me 
> back to the top of the page.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537839 - Joanie made a fix 
for this (yeah!).

> 2.  Orca doesn't let me use the numpad to enter numbers, it just tries 
> to perform the review functions.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536825 - Joanie added a 
'bypass' feature where Orca+Backspace will tell Orca to not process the 
next keystroke as an Orca key.

> 3.  Orca doesn't reliabely indicate whether text is selected in firefox 
> when performing control shift rightarrow or other text selection functions.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412100, which we're using 
to track this functionality.

> 4.  When navigating inside a form, instead of staying in the form when 
> reviewing by word, orca will just jump to the next button in the form.  
> For example, when navigating to the end of the text you type into an 
> edit field such as the name edit field.

I'm on somewhat of an unmodern system today (GNOME v1.0, believe it or 
not) and cannot test these things.  Do you have a specific URL that you 
can point us to that demonstrates this behavior?  In addition, which 
versions of Firefox and Orca are you using?

> 5.  In thunderbird, when navigating by character in a message, orca 
> doesn't always read the character your on and sometimes will skip 
> characters intirely.  These are bugs that I've found so far.

Which versions of Thunderbird and Orca are you using?

Will