Re: [orca-list] Indicating page breaks in Open Office [was suggestions for openoffice/orca improvements]

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Janina,

I was responding to Will's question about how to indicate page breaks 
within OpenOffice writer, so let's put indicating text attributes into a 
different thread.

Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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?
>
> Here's an example based on your sentence:
>
> Orca is a screen reader that works
> Orca Status Report                      June 1, 2008
> By Staff Evaluator                            Page 2
> page 2 well with many gnome applications.
>
>    
As I said before, I haven't used OO writer before, so I have a few 
questions. When you are editing a document in OO writer that has headers 
and footers, are you forced to arrow across them at each page break? if 
you are typing in such a document and the carat crosses a page boundary, 
do you hear these blocks created? Given the nature of headers and 
footers, which are written once and applied across many pages, I am 
surprised that the carat tracks across them. Is there an editing view, 
as opposed to a layout view, that you could use except when performing a 
final review?

To clarify my suggestion for indicating page breaks, the page number in 
your example would be indicated before speaking the contents of the 
header block--this is when the focus moves onto the new page. Similarly, 
when moving upwards, the page number would be indicated before the 
contents of the footer block were spoken.

> I would really not care to hear even the page announcement in REadAll
> mode


Fine, we disagree. I guess the question that follows is... If page break 
notification is included within Orca, are there enough people who would 
like to turn it off to require the inclusion of a control within the 
application preferences for enabling and disabling this functionality?

dave