Re: [orca-list] Orca Find

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

David,
I think you slightly got me wrong, I wasn't meaning get rid of the find 
feature, just meaning is the flat review being moved, is that of value 
if there were a find feature in orca which would move live focus.

Now reading your example of where it may be used, I imagine flat review 
is the right thing as you may only want to see what the value is in a 
control and if live focus were to move it would be annoying as you would 
have to move live focus back to where you need it.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, David E. Price wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/30/2010 05:40 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Now for those who do actually use the find feature, is the current 
> > one using flat review of valuable? Would it be worth having the two 
> > different types of find in orca?
>
> Yes, it is valuable. The Orca find allows the user to find elements of 
> the screen that are not found using a built-in find feature.
>
> For example, I have a friend who worked at a call center for a while. 
> He used proprietary software that had many fields for data entry and 
> display. The only way he could do his job well was to rely on the find 
> feature of his Windows screen reader. He could search for the field 
> name he needed and then either read the value for that field or move 
> into the edit box/text area to add the required information. Similar 
> situations could easily develop with software in Linux.
>
> My two cents... keep the Orca find utility.
>
> dave