Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

"Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU> writes:
> > suppose someone wanted to write a
> > keyboard navigation extension for Firefox to do better handling of caret
> > and structural navigation than we can do in Orca.  Do you have an idea
> > of how difficult/complex this might be and do you know of someone that
> > might want to do it (and get paid for it)?
>
> Well, to some extent, FireVox implements this now:
> http://firevox.clcworld.net/
>
>   I haven't really used it extensively though, so don't know what its 
> shortcomings are.  However, it does not attempt to overload the arrow keys, 
> in fact it doesn't use them at all. I'd like to see smart use of arrow 
> keys - i.e. something that takes the best navigation from Orca and Jaws and 
> rolls them into one.
Firevox uses the arrow keys only within its menus, which you open by
holding control+shift and press a letter; or you do it by using the
"sticky key" feature.

> I think the issues will be with the screen readers which use virtual 
> buffers - can we get them to move their point of regard consistently as we 
> shift mozilla's focus? I don't know. The rest seems pretty easy (famous last 
> words).
Why should users of Windows screen readers use your extension? They do the
very same as your extension and much much more; so it seems redundant to
install it. The same's to say for Firevox.
Such extensions are alternatives when not using Windows screen readers.

> I'd love to do this (and get paid), but I want to investigate a few things 
> before I really commit.  I'm currently reworking linkslist into 
> headingslist, which will include next/previous heading commands. This will 
> attempt to shift focus from heading to heading, so will give me a pretty 
> good idea of how screen readers deal with this.  Stay tuned...
I hope you will place all features in one extension. It would be no good
idea to write an extension for every element.
Hermann

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