Re: [orca-list] Braille/speech differs: misspelt words being reported

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

OK, I didn't know that misspelled is an attribute, I think that would be 
sufficient for the moment. I personally wouldn't use misspelled flash 
messages as I normally am just typing away happily and don't reach down 
to the Braille display until I want to check something (IE. I don't type 
and monitor the Braille display at the same time).

I think all this indicates is how much we are trying to put onto dots 7 
and 8.

However I do follow the logic that you probably have a clue when you 
enabled something such as bold and so could work out when it might be 
misspelled.

Now I do use speech at the same time so I get the alert of the 
misspelled word soon as I press space, it might be good to hear from a 
Braille only user (IE. do Braille only users work differently, spell 
check at the end of writing).

Michael Whapples
On 05/15/2010 04:28 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Michael, all.
>
> On this:
>
>    
> > When typing (eg. like now in thunderbird) if I misspell a word speech
> > tells me misspelled but Braille gives no indication.
> >      
> Right. Visually a misspelled word is underlined by a red, squiggly line,
> i.e. a text attribute. If you enable braille underlining for attributes
> (not enabled by default), and have misspelled words amongst your enabled
> attributes (included by default), then as the squigglies appear (and
> "misspelled" is spoken) they should appear underlined in braille. So you
> do have an indication.
>
> Of course, other attributes appear underlined as well. So maybe you just
> typed a bold word and now need to go back and check what the formatting
> is, but we don't yet have formatting markup spec'ed out yet, so it's not
> implemented yet, so you'd have to press Orca+F (which, at the moment,
> still only speaks the formatting). Etc. Etc. Etc. We definitely still
> have work to do.
>
> We could flash 'misspelled' in this case. And I wouldn't object to doing
> so if that's what everyone wants. However, even in the current state of
> Orca, I'd argue that once you've enabled the underlining of attributes,
> you do have sufficient information that the word is misspelled. If that
> word were, say bold, there'd be other clues like:
>
> 1. It would be underlined from the get-go. With misspelled words, it's
> not underlined until you move on to the next word.
>
> 2. If you really had no idea that you'd accidentally turned bold on,
> presumably the surrounding words would be bold (and thus underlined in
> braille) as well.
>
> With all this in mind, should I flash 'misspelled'? It's super easy to
> make that change, so no worries there. I just want to be sure it's the
> right thing to do.
>
> BTW Michael, thanks for your other reports. I'd not had time to respond
> during the week due to the DayJob, but I've noted them all down on my
> to-do list and will look at them this weekend.
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
>
>