Re: [orca-list] More structural navigation thoughts

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Jacob.

> Given that we're binding the structural navigation shortcut keys, I have
> a question about one I've been curious over. What does the "go to last
> live region" key, y, do exactly?

To be honest, I had to go back and check because I was not involved with
that implementation.

According to the associated bug/rfe: [1]

> My conversation with Mike yielded three good ideas that I will now try to
> implement.
>
> 1) A user command to hear one of up to 6 previous messages from a given live
> region.
>
> 2) Implement Will's idea of moving to the live region which was just announced.
>
> 3) Change output so that rude messages don't interrupt any other utterances.

So y is intended to move to the last live region spoken. Which makes
sense to me as a feature. It also suggests that the keybinding
description is missing a word. Three comments later in the bug, Will
made a similar observation:

> In the way they are used here, "previous" and "next" refer to
> navigational location on the page, which makes sense.  The word "last" threw
> me, however, and I went looking for "previous".  I then realized "last" was in
> the temporal sense of the word.  So, when I look at this help text for the
> user:
>
> +                _("Goes to previous live region."))
> +                _("Goes to next live region."))
> +                _("Goes to last live region."))
>
> I wonder if a different word choice can be made for "last" (e.g., "current")?
> Or, do we just need to live with the fact that we are dealing with words that
> can describe both relative aspects of time and location?

But nothing seems to have taken place in response. <shrugs>

If I tack on the word 'spoken' to the end of the description string, do
you think that would make things sufficiently clear? Would 'current' be
better?

--joanie

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466251#c33