Re: [orca-list] braille cursor routing buttons in firefox

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I always imagine the braille routing keys to do a mouse click at the
position of the character the routing key relates to, so in this case I
guess it means activate the link. The only thing that bothers me is that
sometimes its not clear where the link begins as when reading a line of
braille there is nothing inserted to indicate the start of a link, so
this might lead to links being accidently activated.

Also on the topic of cursor routing keys, they don't work in a code
editing window of eclipse. Is there some way that a more general
solution for cursor routing keys could be implemented, eg. mouse click
on the character corresponding to the braille routing key. This general
action may need to be overridable should a different action be needed
(eg. if people feel a different action would be best in firefox, as
people have already suggested).

Michael Whapples
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 03:39 +0000, Sérgio Neves wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like the default action to activate the link when I press a touch 
> cursor, because I think it becomes easier the interaction with the links. 
> Instead of pressing some times the insert+rightarrow keys and enter, it 
> would be possible to press the braille button only the necessary times to 
> show the link on the braille display, and press the touch cursor to activate 
> it (at most two or three presses!!).
> I think this patch would have a great value!!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards
>
> Sérgio Neves
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Pedersen" <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>
> To: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:41 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] braille cursor routing buttons in firefox
>
>
>
> Hi all, I'm currently testing a patch to allow support of cursor routing
> buttons on braille displays in firefox.  I'm trying to decide on how
> exactly they should work and would very much appreciate feedback from
> those of you using braille displays.
> With the current patch if you press a touch cursor on a link the braille
> cursor is placed on the link but the link is not activated.  My
> preference would be to activate the link when I press the cursor routing
> button.  What would you all like the  default behavior to be?
> thanks
> Mike Pedersen
>
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