Re: [orca-list] orca and clickable links

[Zachary Kline <kline zachary gmail com>]

Hi Mike,
It's my understanding that visually speaking, clicking the mouse on a
certain part of a webpage does route the cursor to that spot.  If it's a
link, since the web operates on a single-click basis, that activates it.
I may be somewhat mistaken here.  Nevertheless, I agree with you: some
provision should be made for onClick events.  I notice many websites
lately which depend rather heavily on them.
Best,
Zack.
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 07:27:50PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Yes that works and for the example I was thinking of it makes the
> website work in a fairly usable way (once you realise what parts can
> be clicked) where as other screen readers the website is almost
> point the mouse and hope. However I notice something which may want
> some attention (unsure whether it is really a bug or an enhancement
> as its something which doesn't work as naturally as I would expect
> but isn't necessarily "wrong" in the way orca has been planned to
> work up to now).
>
> Anyway what is the problem, I would expect that using the cursor
> routing keys on my Braille display should perform a mouse click at
> the point where the cursor routing key relates. When I try this orca
> only positions the caret there (unless it is a link). Under my idea
> of how cursor routing keys work, if nothing should happen normally
> on a click the cursor should be routed there (may be orca still
> passes firefox a mouse click and firefox does the cursor routing).
>
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Have you tried to route the mouse pointer to the caret location and then
> > perform a left mouse click?
> >
> > --Joanie
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 14:24 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > Could I make this more general, could we have a way of clicking mouse
> > > buttons at the caret position in firefox?
> > >
> > > Michael Whapples
> > > On -10/01/37 20:59, Aruni Sharma wrote:
> > > > Hello, Is there any work going on for making orca access the
> > > > clickable links in ff? There are many sites which use these links
> > > > extensively. Orca just says "text" for all such links not allowing
> > > > to click them.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Aruni.
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