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

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Sa 17. Mai 2008 um 16:42:57 schrieb Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>:
> David E. Price writes:
> > ... for speech output, I would suggest two things.  First, the current 
> > > page numbershould always be available through "where am I" if that is 
> > > the method for reading the status line. Second, I would suggest that, 
> > > when the user is crossing a page boundary, the number of the page 
> > > being entered is read before the content of that line.   For instance, 
> > > if the sentence "orca is a screen reader that works well with many 
> > > gnome applications." spanned the page break between pages 1 and 2, 
> > > with the page break occurring between "works" and "well", the user 
> > > reading downwards would hear: 
> >
> >
> > > Orca is a screen reader that works 
> >
> > > page 2 well with many gnome applications. 
>
> And what would Orca do when page 2 has a header block? For that matter,
> what would it do when page 1 has a footer block?

Simply ignore it.
Don't know exactly how OO handles headers/footers, but from MS Word I know 
that one can activate/deactivate them.
So when you read a text, and you want to know its exact formatting 
including page breaks, it's sufficent to hear where this breaks are.
Hermann
PS.: Is the change of columns on a multi column page announced in OO? If 
not, I would suggest doing so.