Re: [orca-list] Prolems noticed while accessing Gcalctool with Orca.

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Dattatray:

Some of the issues you report are Gtk+ issues; others are known issues
that have been fixed or are being worked on. Having said that, please
note that Gcalctool's UI has been modified quite a bit for GNOME
2.29/2.30. For instance, the radio buttons you describe having problems
with no longer exist. If you try the latest Orca with the latest
gcalctool and find issues, please report them in bugzilla.

Thanks!
--Joanie

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 15:59 +0530, Dattatray Bhat wrote:
> While exploring Gcalctool with Orca screen reader, I have noticed the
> following remarkable behaviour-
>
> 1. Title bar wrongly announced after switching to another mode
> Speech output of 'Speak title bar' command depends on the mode in
> which Gcalctool was started, and does not reflect a change in mode.
> If you start Gcalctool in Basic mode, the output is "Calculator" even
> after you switch to Scientific or Financial mode.
> If you start it in Scientific mode, the output is "Scientific
> Calculator" even after you switch to Financial or Basic mode.
> If you start it in Financial mode, the output is "Financial
> Calculator" even after you switch to Basic or Scientific mode.
>
> 2. Contents of result area announced too many times
> When you start Gcalctool, Orca announces contents of result region too
> many (12) times, i.e. "Zero.. zero.. zero.. zero.. zero.. zero..
> zero.. zero.. zero.. zero.. zero.. zero". When you switch mode, the
> contents of result region are announced 4 times. In both cases,
> announcing the contents twice should be enough. 
>
> 3. Change in numeric base not correctly announced
> Orca response to change in numeric base is unpredictable.
> When Alt+b (binary)      is pressed, Orca may announce âBin selected
> radio buttonâ or âBin not selected radio buttonâ.
> When Alt+o (octal)       is pressed, Orca may announce âOct selected
> radio buttonâ or âOct not selected radio buttonâ.
> When Alt+d (decimal)     is pressed, Orca may announce âDec selected
> radio buttonâ or âDec not selected radio buttonâ.
> When Alt+x (hexadesimal) is pressed, Orca may announce âHex selected
> radio buttonâ or âHex not selected radio buttonâ.
>
> 4. Change in display type is not correctly announced
> Orca response to change in display type is unpredictable.
> When Alt+n (engineering) is pressed, Orca may announce "Eng selected
> radio buttonâ or âEng not selected radio buttonâ.
> When Alt+f (fixed)       is pressed, Orca may announce "Fix selected
> radio buttonâ or âFix not selected radio buttonâ.
> When Alt+s (scientific)  is pressed, Orca may announce "Sci selected
> radio buttonâ or âSci not selected radio buttonâ.
>
> 5. Change in trigonometric type is not correctly announced
> Orca response to change in trigonometric type is unpredictable.
> When Alt+g (degrees)  is pressed, Orca may announce "Degrees selected
> radio buttonâ or âDegrees not selected radio buttonâ.
> When Alt+a (gradians) is pressed, Orca may announce "Gradians selected
> radio buttonâ or âGradians not selected radio buttonâ.
> When Alt+r (radians)  is pressed, Orca may announce "Radians selected
> radio buttonâ or âRadians not selected radio buttonâ.
>
> 6. Change in accuracy not announced if entered as numerals
> 'A' activates the accuracy setting. Number of decimal places can be
> entered as numeral or selected by up/down arrows. Orca does not
> announce number of decimal places if entered as numeral.
>
> 7. Trailing zeroes setting not announced
> Ctrl+t shows/ hides trailing zeroes. Orca does not announce the change
> in settings.
>
> 8. Thousands separators setting not announced
> Ctrl+k shows/ hides thousands separators. Orca does not announce the
> change in settings.
>
> 9. Precedence setting not announced
> Ctrl+l/ r sets the precedence to L-R/ arithmetic. Orca does not
> announce the change in precedence. The change in precedence is
> announced only if the status bar is read (Orca+KP_Enter twice). L-R
> precedence keeps showing in status bar when computations are
> performed. Arithmetic precedence note disappears from status bar as
> soon as computations start. 
>
> 10. Constants and memory register actions not properly announced
> On pressing #, Orca just says "Menu. It should say "Constants menu".
> On pressing S, Orca just says "Menu". It should say "Save-to-memory
> menu".
> On pressing Shift+Delete, S Orca just says menu. It should say
> "Reset-memory-to-zero menu".
> On pressing R, Orca just says "Menu". It should say
> "Retrieve-from-memory menu".
>
> 11. Operator names not announced when corresponding keys are pressed
> When keys C, u, *, /, -, !, M, r, i, ^, @, s are pressed, Orca does
> not speak the operator names viz. C(change sign), u (absolute value),
> * (times), / (divided by), - (minus), ! (factorial), M (modulus
> division), r (reciprocal), i (integer portion), ^ (raised to power), @
> (square), s (sqare root).
>
> I could not locate the above problems among the open bugs in products
> Gcalctool and Orca on GNOME Bugzilla page. Being a newcomer to Orca, I
> request experienced users and developers to guide me on whether to
> post these as new bugs.
>
> Regards.
>
> D V Bhat
> OSSD, CDAC Mumbai (Kharghar)
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