Re: [orca-list] suggestions for openoffice/orca improvements

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

OOo provides some info on the status bar, which you can get via a double 
press of Insert+KP_Enter (desktop layout).

We're also working with the OOo team to try to get better positional 
information for location left-to-right on the page: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502101.

The presentation of crossing page boundaries is an interesting thing 
that I don't believe Orca handles.  If Orca were to handle this (I'm not 
sure if we get the info we need from OOo or not), what do you suggest 
the presentation be for speech and braille?

Will

David E. Price wrote:
> From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster bex net>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:52 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] suggestions for openoffice/orca improvements
> [...]
>
> > yet.  My first suggestion is for a way to tell what line/column
> > position you are at on a page.  This would be very useful for
> > determining where page breaks are appearing in a document.
>
> I haven't used OpenOffice writer, but I believe it is a WYSIWYG program.  In 
> this case, I believe the feedback should be more specific, telling you in 
> measurement units (inches, centimeters,or millimeters) exactly where you are 
> on the page. As fonts change, row and column numbers won't give the user the 
> specific knowledge needed to properly format the document--there will always 
> be calculations needed to sort out where the current position is on the 
> page.  Does OO writer provide this information somewhere already, such as on 
> a status bar?
>
> dave
>
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