Re: [orca-list] feature request: disable live regions globally

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I think such an option as you initially suggest would be good. However I 
would possibly say if the user sets it not to announce live regions by 
default then it would be useful for orca to announce that there is a 
live region present.

As for the more complicated suggestion from Joannie, I like the idea but 
it does sound a bit difficult, possibly inaccurate and also could slow 
down orca. I guess I am saying at the moment I am unconvinced of the 
value of that feature, I would need to see a prototype running before 
really supporting it.

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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> Hi
> Well, I wasn't actually proposing a change to the default, just a way to
> set the options we currently have for live regions on a permanent rather
> than a temporary basis.
> I like the idea of trying to identify counters and shut them up, though
> I'm not sure how practical this would realistically be. If something
> like that was implemented, there'd also need to be a way to explicitly
> mark (or unmark) a region as a counter when the heuristics were incorrect.
>
> On 04/20/2010 08:33 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>    
> > Hi Jacob.
> >
> >      
> > > I'd like to put forward and idea for a feature request, and that is to
> > > have an option in Orca's Firefox preferences dialog to globally disable
> > > all live regions by default. Of late, I'm finding that most web pages I
> > > visit use these for annoying statistics counters that are always
> > > updating and seriously get in the way if they aren't turned off. I can't
> > > actually think of one page that has used such live regions in a useful
> > > way. As such, I always end up disabling them with shift-backslash anyway.
> > >
> > > What does everyone think?
> > >        
> > Once a consensus is reached, if you'll summarize the conclusions
> > (including what the default/initial value of this setting should be) in
> > a new RFE in bugzilla, I'd be happy to implement it.
> >
> > Independent of the above "just get the blessed counters to shut the heck
> > up," it might also be interesting to see if we can heuristically
> > identify counters and ignore them even when live regions are enabled. If
> > you agree, that would be a separate RFE.
> >
> > Take care.
> > --joanie
> >
> >      
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