Re: [orca-list] Braille and Orca Again

[Teresa Cochran <pipistrelle cox net>]

Hi, Will. sorry about the confusion.

When I go to any webpage and use the Braille down-arrow function (dot 4
chord on the Braille Lite 40) or the panning functions (advance bars) I
encounter the window title, tool bars and menu bar. I read down the
window using these keys, and get to text and the  bottom of the window.
There is a button that says push button on the Braille display. I assume
this button in the window is the zoom button, but can't be sure. Then
there is no way to continue on past the bottom of the window. If I move
the arrow keys on the computer keyboard, the Braille jumps to my cursor
position before I start reading, and I have to arrow down twenty or
thirty lines with the keyboard to find the corresponding place that was
formerly at the bottom of the window.

I'm fairly certain that this may mean the mouse pointer is being tracked
in a web browser when braille is used. If I try to change cursor
tracking in brltty, it has no effect in Orca.

I will familiarize myself with the bug file process as soon as I can.
Thanks for the help and sorry for the confusion.

Teresa

On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:36 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Teresa:
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by the mouse pointer.  Can you provide more  
> details?  For example:
>
> 1) What URL are you going to?
> 2) What keys are you pressing on your braille display?
> 3) What keys are you pressing on your keyboard?
> 4) For the above, do you expect Orca to go and where does it actually  
> go?
>
> Finally, getting a small debug file of the above might help a lot to  
> help us understand what you are experiencing.  You can read more about  
> getting Orca to create a debug file at:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging
>
> Will
>
> On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
>
> > Hi, folk,
> >
> > I did find a way to use a simulation of tab and arrow keys with the
> > Braille Lite. However, when I use the simulated arrow functions, the
> > braille still follows the mouse pointer only. Or the mouse pointer
> > tracks with braille. I'm confused and not entirely sure. But the web
> > page is not laid out the same as when reading with speech. I will keep
> > experimenting with this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Teresa

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