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

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

This was probably ment to go to the list,

Very valid point.

-Jon
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:14:06 -0500
From: Scott Berry <scottbb1973 gmail com>
To: 'Jon' <j orcauser gmail com>
Subject: RE: [orca-list] Calling all braille users. I need your opinions.

You know actually John it would be good if the messages were shortened for
someone like me who has a 20-cell so that you do not use up all braille real
estate on the 20 and 40-cells. 

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From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Jon
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 13:05
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Calling all braille users. I need your opinions.

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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