Re: [orca-list] Discoverability of double tap key bindings

[Paul Hunt <huntp ukonline co uk>]

Hi Michael,

I think that's a very good idea.

Orca reporting a key's double and triple keypress bindings, if they 
exist, when you press it once in learn mode gets my vote.

I would just have Orca tell you what they are on the first keypress, 
rather than just telling you that they exist.

Paul


On 04/05/10 11:29, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 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
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