Re: [orca-list] Object mnemonics and Braille

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mike:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588875 is being used to track 
this feature.  From that bug:

"One way to do this would be to look at the attributes of the text and 
use the text attributes feature to represent the attribute in braille. 
When I look at menu and menu items in gnome-terminal, for example, I see 
the "underline:low" attribute being used to paint the mnemonic.

Doing this for all objects *might* be as easy as moving the 
getAttributeMask from the Text class to the Component class in braille.py."

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I've started using the speak object mnemonics feature in orca (I am 
> using orca 2.27.5) and was wondering whether it would be possible for a 
> similar feature to be added to Braille output.
>
> Now I am not so certain on how this could be done. One way would be just 
> add the information on to the Braille output (like it is added to speech 
> output). Possibly a better option (if possible) is for orca to underline 
> the letter (like is is done visually in menus). However this second one 
> I could imagine to be more difficult to implement as it sometimes isn't 
> just a letter from the item but rather a keyboard shortcut (eg. in the 
> orca preferences the "OK" button is alt+o). May be that example wasn't 
> the best, alt_o is to do with the "O" in the "OK" and for some platforms 
> (I don't know about GTK) the O might be underlined visually to indicate 
> the shortcut key, but you hopefully get what I am getting at.
>
> Any views?
>
> Michael Whapples
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