Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird: Orca not speaking misspelled words in spell check dialog

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

"David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> When I have completed writing a message and hit control-Enter, the spell 
> check dialog box appears (enabled through 
> Edit:Preferences:Composition:Spelling). The first error is announced 
> when the dialog box appears.  However, once I have 
> corrected/ignored/added the currently selected word, Orca remains silent 
> as the next word is presented.  I need to use flat review mode to 
> determine what is the newly selected "error".
>
> Is anyone else seeing this behavior?
You're right, and this also happens in TB 2.x under Windows. However,
Jaws reads the first selected correction, and I cannot remember
whether Orca does this too. Sometimes you can conclude what's meant,
but it's annoying.
In TB under Windows I wrote a little Jaws-script that speaks the miss
spelled word when I press a certain key. I've no knowledge of Python,
but I suspect it should be easy to write such a script, since the miss
spelled word is presented in the same place on the screen.
Hermann

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