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

[Isaac Porat <isaac porat me uk>]

Hi Joanie

I like the proposed Firefox bindings.

On the idea of different modes namely speech, magnification and Braille, 
I happen to use only speech nothing else so cannot comment on other modes.
I assume that switching between modes will be disabled for those of us 
who use only one mode and indicated this in the configuration as it is now.

Regards
Isaac

On 25/04/2010 09:08, 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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