Re: [orca-list] date and time keybindings

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I have to say I am against this as an idea. I have a few reasons:

* That key binding isn't great for convenience, the orca+t suggestions 
seem better in that respect.
* The f12 suggestion has little in value for the argument of being like 
other screen readers eg. window-eyes doesn't do that so you are only 
making it easy for a certain group to come to orca. Should we really 
prefer cloning one other screen reader over another?
* Should orca really have a time/date feature by default? I really don't 
see this as a screen reader feature. I generally just have a watch or 
clock next to the computer and normally just use that.

Now for a few questions regarding the feature itself. Should it be two 
separate features for time and date or should they be combined? Is there 
one preferred over the other, eg. as I tend to have a watch or clock to 
hand when at the computer I have time very easy but date is not so 
convenient, although do we tend to remember the day we are in a bit 
better (date has that habbit of changing less frequently)?

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Jon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a quick vote again.
>
> Would people mind if orca+f12 was bound to present time, and orca+f12
> double click to present the date?
>
> This would be the default keybinding from other screenreaders, so prefered
> for cross screenreader consistancy.
>
> This would currently clash with the firefox binding for "switch between
> orca and gecko caret navigation" in Firefox, (Thanks Attila for pointing
> this out), would people mind if the switching was done with a diffrent
> keybinding, and if so is there a prefered choice?
>
> Please reply to list
>
> Follow the progress here:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611576
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jon
>
>