Re: [orca-list] pleasment, please add two new quick navigation keys to The orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

An enhancement request has been filed and I'd definitely be willing to  
review/accept a patch:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593666

Will

On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:

> I don't have an answer. I did check the orca settings for firefox to  
> check whether such a key was known by orca but not enabled but didn't  
> find one in the list. I don't know whether it is even possible to do  
> what is being suggested.
>
> I would suggest the best way of getting this noticed is to create a  
> feature request in the gnome bugzilla.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 01/28/2010 12:58 PM, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote:
> > Dear core developers of Orca,
> >
> > Several months ago, i pleased very nice programmer and kind human  
> > being, MR Walker, if Mozilla Firefox support could be extended by The  
> > two quick navigation keys. One for moving The virtual cursor to The  
> > separator in The forward direction and second for moving to The  
> > separator in The backward direction. Unfortunately nobody created  
> > those scripts. so i would like to know, if The separator object can  
> > not be detected thank's to The fact, that programmers of Orca can not  
> > detect The separator? I do not think, that adding those scripts would  
> > be so complex, if You do not like The GUI part of Orca code for  
> > adding new quick navigation scripts, You can build predefined key to  
> > The source code. I Am aware, that Python is not The Microsoft Visual  
> > Basic professional and that modifiing The GUI part of every Python  
> > application is not so simple as in Visual basic. So what about to  
> > incorporate those scripts for jumping to The separator by using s  
> > little s letter and The S big s letter? Orca can be used for many  
> > hours without need to quit and run Orca again even on The WEB pages  
> > which are dynamically changing. And even with WEB pages, which are  
> > using more than three live regions and those live regions are  
> > frequently changing. I have never occurred The crash of Mozilla  
> > Firefox or other components of Linux thank's to The algorithms, which  
> > are used by Orca screen reader. I even think, that Orca is giving  
> > visually impaired computer user The best tool for work with WEB and  
> > with Openoffice ORG at The proffesional level. I do not know about  
> > other screen reader, which would work so reliably and stable like  
> > Orca 2.28.1 can work for now.
> >
> > I tested Orca for really many hours of fluent work and i can not tell  
> > wrong words to this assistive technology. I think, that this screen  
> > reader would be The good example of project, which is really enabling  
> > many visually impaired computer users to use The freely awailable  
> > operating systems with support of robust and highly professional  
> > assistive technology. I would like to thank all core developers,  
> > which are now working not only on Orca development, but i would also  
> > like to thank very much all developers, which are developing The  
> > dependencyes, on which Orca depends. I would like to thank The core  
> > developers of at-spi, because those modules are developed very  
> > professionally. So please, be very aware while coming to The new  
> > programmers approach to The interprocess communication by using DBUS.  
> > Please be very careful to not cause The fact, that Orca will cause  
> > random crashes. Be also very careful while developing new versions of  
> > at-spi and Corba modules.
> >
> > Existing approach is now reliable and while using desktop  
> > environment, which is programmed only by using C programming language  
> > and if Pulseaudio is not being used, Orca is now providing very fast  
> > responsiveness. So please, try to do Yours best to enable visually  
> > impaired users to use stable assistive technology also in future. You  
> > are making very valuable screen reader and working with Orca is  
> > making me very big joy every day.
>
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