Re: [orca-list] Still issues with the navigation extension in FF

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Sorry, haven't been around for the past couple of weeks. I will get back to 
working on this soon.

> The links list is still loaded very slowly, especially on large pages.

This is due to the way I'm processing the document. Because I wanted a quick 
and durty first pass, I process the entire document and extract all links 
(or headings depending on which extension we're talking about) into an array 
each time I open the extension's main dialog. This gives a large performance 
hit for large pages. I'll fix this soon.

> The whole list is spoken automatically, which isn't solved too.

I both set focus to, as well as select the first element in the links list 
(or headings list).  This may be causing orca to read the list (not sure 
why).  I will look into this soon.


> When typing the first letter to search for a certain link, Orca uses
> structural navigation keys, so every keystroke has to be bypassed. I can
> use the search box, but when I know that there's a certain link
> beginning with a certain letter, I would prefer to just type this
> letter. If it's unfortunately an Orca navigation key, I get a conflict.
> Is there a way to tell the extension to not use the structural
> navigation mode of Orca?

This is a good question. Since there is no "forms mode" in orca, orca needs 
to be smart about the way it handles keyboard events. If focus is on an form 
control which takes arbitrary keyboard input (like a single line textbox or 
multi-line textarea), or a select list, then orca should pass all keyboard 
input to the browser. Otherwise, orca should process keyboard input for 
structural navigation.  It shouldn't matter whether the form controls are 
embedded in a webpage or an extension.

How does orca handle this at present?
-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: [orca-list] Still issues with the navigation extension in FF


Hi,
there are still some unsolved issues with Rich Caloggeros navigation
extension:
The links list is still loaded very slowly, especially on large pages.
The whole list is spoken automatically, which isn't solved too.
When typing the first letter to search for a certain link, Orca uses
structural navigation keys, so every keystroke has to be bypassed. I can
use the search box, but when I know that there's a certain link
beginning with a certain letter, I would prefer to just type this
letter. If it's unfortunately an Orca navigation key, I get a conflict.
Is there a way to tell the extension to not use the structural
navigation mode of Orca?
Hermann
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