Re: [orca-list] a feature suggestion for braille in Orca

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 08:59 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a few suggestions for some features I would like to see in Orca.
>
> 1.  Firstly and most importantly I would like to see braille available
> upon opening the preferences for each application. The reason for this
> is Grade 2 support.  For instance, I don't like Grade 2 in
> gnome-terminal (my own opinion) but I like Grade 2 in my e-mail and I
> wouldlike Grade 2 in gedit.  Now another suggestion to go allong with
> this is to have braille uncontracted at the current word.  this way if
> you have say for instance a command you can read the command in Grade 1.
> It would be good to have Grade 2 as a option you can set on the fly. So
> in otherwords, a keystroke could be assigned in the Orca key bindings
> for this.
I have just tried here using control insert space (for application
specific settings in evolution) and I had a braille tab. I couldn't find
anything about contracted braille, but I haven't tried setting that up.
Your comment about a key press is a good one.

> 2.  I would like to see some more navigational keys inOrca.  I see there
> is tables, headings, list. But it would be nice to have the following:
>
> e and Shift E:  edit boxes
>
> C and Shift C:  combo boxes
>
> B and Shift B:  buttons
>
>
> R and Shift R:  radio buttons
> I think that would make navigating a page a whole lot smoother at least
> for me and I think others as well.
I believe this has already been answered. Also I personally question
whether this sort of stuff would be better in a firefox plugin and only
the "basic" and "essential" navigation stuff is kept in orca to try and
keep things fast.

> 3.  In festival I notice that some words are pronounced incorrectly, I
> will try to start a dictionary and get Festival's speech more precise.
> So I'll use the pronunciation editor inOrca.  Would it be feasible once
> i start doing this to submit the pronunciation dictionary to subversion
> and have it added innewer releases of Orca?
Is the problems festival specific as you seem to be saying? If so I feel
orca is the wrong place again, we aren't all using festival and
potentially festival corrections will mess up things for those using
other synths with orca. I don't know much about festival's workings, but
I guess it must have some sort of dictionary, and the synths dictionary
is the place for synth specific corrections (unless things like
speech-dispatcher has a driver specific dictionary, in which case that
could be used).

Michael Whapples
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