Re: [orca-list] Determining ,m5u ,%ortcuts1 and Flat Review Toggle

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Kevin:

> Thanks, Will, for the info on the access keys.  I should have thought
> about "Where Am I."

Heh - no problem.  It's a new system.  Ideally it should "just work" 
and present you with the information you need without require you to 
think about it.  That is, I think it is more important for you to 
accomplish the real task at hand (e.g., getting your job done) versus 
needing to figure out which knob to turn and which button to push.

> I understand review mode and real focus.  I've been a JAWS user for a
> long time.  What I don't understand is what the flat review toggle key
> does, as it seems that the number pad arrow keys always do flat review,
> and the minus key doesn't seem to have any effect that I can see.

All it really does is tell Orca to do the work to turn flat review on 
or off.  Turning flat review on involves an expensive computational 
analysis of the text in the window.  In effect, however, KP_5 does just 
about the same thing as turning it on via KP_Minus.  Once flat review 
is on, pressing it *should* take you right back to the object that 
current has focus.

>   Also,
> shouldn't I be able to review away from the focus cursor when I'm in
> menus as well, in order to check spellings of menus I don't understand,
> or am I expecting functions outside if what was intended?

That might be a bug.  :-(  I'll check, but I think flat review 
currently just reviews the active window and not any other transient 
things such as menus.

Will