Re: [orca-list] braille presentation of links

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:34:13PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Your suggestions I think are good, but I have a couple of questions,
> which you may be able to answer.
>
> You say about the way to indicate a control, now I am not sure about GTK
> (or windows as you were describing it based on outspoken for windows),
> but as I understand it in java accessibility, a custom control could be
> given its own role so making it a non-standard accessible control. How
> might the system you describe support such a possibility? Or does this
> not really exist in GTK and so might not be necessary in the main.

I'm not sure. However, I can't see that it would make any difference.
 
> How would blinking cursors be, may be different rates for the different
> types (IE. mouse could be much slower than actual cursor), although I am
> not so sure about mouse cursor in the context of GTK accessibility as
> part of the idea is that you shouldn't need the mouse if accessibility
> is correct. The other reason I wonder about the mouse cursor and if it
> is needed, is that when using a braille display is it needed to know the
> mouse cursor, as cursor routing keys could relate to left/right click at
> that point.
Cursors blinking at different speeds would be confusing. I think it's 
important to know where the mouse pointer is. I also think that it would 
be good to be able to route the mouse pointer without actually 
performing a mouse click. For those who have braille displays with only 
one row of cursor routing buttons, it would also be useful to be able to 
perform a right clicks from the display, without having to use the 
numeric keypad.

Regards,

Bertil