Re: [orca-list] On binding (or not binding) speech and magnification functions

[Tom Masterson <kd7cyu yahoo com>]

I am a primary braille user but not primarily an orca user as I just find 
ways to work at the console if I can.  That may be because of braille 
issues in orca since I don't tend to pursue things if they don't work and 
I have another way of handling them.  That being said where are the 
biggest issues with braille in orca that people are seeing.  What can I do 
to help with this since as I say I am primarily a braille user.

Tom

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

> Hey all.
>
> I had a wacky idea regarding what we might consider doing with respect
> to binding speech and magnification functions -- should we decide it's
> worth doing.
>
> Disclaimer: This is an idea which came to me around 3 AM, and I'm just
> brainstorming with y'all. The following might one day be the
> officially-recognized dumbest idea ever had. <grin> With that
> introduction....
>
> Seems to me that there are three important and somewhat parallel
> features that might be binding-worthy.
>
> 1. Enable/Disable {speech, magnification}
> 2. Increase/Decrease {speech rate, magnification level}
> 3. Cycle {speech punctuation type, magnification zoom window type}
>
> We could add a setting -- a really obvious and easy to find setting --
> whereby the user can indicate if the primary output/mode is speech or
> magnification.
>
> Then we'd have a total of four new keybindings:
> 1. Toggle the enabled state of the primary output/mode
> 2. Increase the level of the primary output/mode
> 3. Decrease the level of the primary output/mode
> 4. Cycle the cycle-able feature of the primary output/mode
>
> The corresponding bindings could be:
> 1. Orca + e: Enable/disable
> 2. Orca + Up: Increase the level
> 3. Orca + Down: Decrease the level
> 4. Orca + <something>: Cycle the cycle-able feature
>
> Notes (and more ideas):
>
> 1. Apologies to folks whose primary output/mode is braille. I'm not
> discounting your needs. (In fact, I'd really like to see Orca's braille
> support improved and increased so that it could truly be the *only*
> output a user accesses and that user would have everything he/she
> needed.) But right now, with the current braille support, I'm not seeing
> the parallel need for toggle/increase/decrease/cycle in braille. If I'm
> wrong, let me know.
>
> 2. I initially thought that Orca + c might be a good cycle keybinding,
> but that would conflict with an existing OpenOffice command. Then I
> thought we could do Orca + Left for previous type and Orca + Right for
> next type, but that conflicts with two Firefox bindings. We can't use
> the letters on the right side of the keyboard, because those conflict
> with the flat review commands for laptop users. Oy! Which brings me to:
>
> 3. We could always have a primary output/mode modifier, similar to the
> Orca modifier. It could default to, say, the Super key but would be
> configurable. If we do that, then we could do:
>
> 1. Super + e: Enable/disable
> 2. Super + Up: Increase the level
> 3. Super + Down: Decrease the level
> 4. Super + Right: Next presentation mode
> 5. Super + Left: Previous presentation mode
>
> Or combine the next/previous into Super + c. The reason I think it's
> worth having a previous and a next is due to magnification. For one
> thing, there's six modes of magnification (and I think there will be a
> lens mode in the gnome-shell magnifier, so that will be seven modes). If
> you accidentally went one past the mode you want, it's kindof a drag to
> have to do a full cycle to get back to the one you want.
>
> 4. As a reminder, I'm not saying we should do this necessarily. It's
> merely a response to those of you who indicated there might be some
> value in binding modality-specific features, <joking> as long as they
> were for the modality you happened to use </joking>.
>
> Thoughts?
> --joanie
>
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