Re: [orca-list] Thoughts on a "list of elements" feature for Orca in Firefox

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

Michael Whapples writes:
> Hello,
> I have to agree with Willie on this, I think the correct place for such
> a feature would be as a plugin for firefox. In saying this, I am not
> saying that such a feature would be useless, just suggesting that there
> may be better places than orca for it.
As I've stated in an earlier mail, this extension not expires every
few days/weeks due to compatibility reasons, but is not that handy and
convenient:
It adds a menu item "accessibility" with a lot of subitems that are
more important for analytical reasons than for a11y.
Furthermore a lot of its hotkeys collide with the Orca structural
navigation keys, so that one must temporarily deactivate them. (BTW.:
is there a bypass key in Orca, cannot remember, but this could be my
fault).
If we rethink Michael's point of view, we could ask why there's a
structural navigation in Orca at all? Moreover: Why not let an
extension do the whole a11y job?
So if we decide to let Orca do some structural navigation on webpages,
why not do the whole job?
This mustn't mean to extend Orca's function to a Jaws or WE level, but
to think and discuss what's really needed and what not.
Hermann