Re: [orca-list] Calling all braille users. I need your opinions.

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

One other question to be thrown out there.

Is the braille messages to be displayed always the same as the text 
being spoken?

-Jon
On Mon 10/05/2010 at 09:44:01, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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> Hi
> While doing this, please look for instances where information is
> brailled but not spoken as well. Two examples I can think of off the top
> of my head:
> 1. In Firefox, the location and search bars. When arrowing or
> backspacing, this change is reflected in braille but not in speech at
> all. Also, sometimes the address and search autocompletes do not get
> immediately spoken, however they do get immediately brailled.
> 2. When composing a message in Evolution, backspacing over a character
> is instantly reflected in braille but again, is not reflected through
> speech at all.
> Related: Try and make sure that Orca isn't collecting information twice
> (once for braille and once for speech) unless it absolutely needs to.
> I've noticed this in Thunderbird especially. When arrowing through a
> message list, the highlighted item will be brailled and then spoken with
> a noticeable delay. It appears that Orca is actually getting the
> information twice, rather than just retrieving it once and then acting
> on it twice. This introduces quite a bit of unnecessary lag when it
> happens. Note that Orca is far from the only screen reader guilty of
> this one.
>
> On 05/09/2010 08:18 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Action item 2: I am planning to locate all places where we are speaking
> > a message but brailling absolutely nothing and changing that. <smile>
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