[orca-list] Discoverability of double tap key bindings

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I have one question about how discoverable some of the multi-tap key 
bindings really are. OK, looking at some of the existing ones you can 
see sense in why they are but I am thinking of the case if you were 
approaching orca totally new. A question would be how do you know 
whether there is a double/triple tap on a given key? Why would that 
function be there and not else where (eg. why would status bar be the 
double tap of title bar, why wouldn't it be elsewhere or why wouldn't we 
just add a modifier).

OK, that's my take on the problem how would I suggest fixing it?

I notice in learn mode orca only announces the key action you do (eg. 
single tap numpad2 and orca tells you "Speaks current flat review 
character", to hear the double tap and triple tap bindings you must do 
those actions). May be orca could alert the user to the double/triple 
tap bindings on a key when they press it (eg. it could be if you tap 
numpad2 orca might say "Speaks current flat review character. Has double 
and triple tap bindings") or it may even tell you what the multi-tap 
bindings are (eg. single tap of numpad2 in learn mode may give "Speaks 
current flat review character, double tap phonetically speaks current 
flat review character and triple tap speaks unicode value of the current 
flat review character").

What do others think? Do newcomers use learn mode to find key bindings? 
Speaking personally, I am not fully sure how I learnt the orca key 
bindings. The one thing which may have helped me is that flat review 
sort of resembles the speakup review keys and speakup uses multi-tap in 
a similar way.

Michael Whapples