Re: [orca-list] Orca and underline in openoffice

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Thanks. Any thoughts on work arounds? Is this openoffice specific or 
general? OK, I will test that, if I save it as HTML will I get the 
information I want in firefox?

Michael Whapples
On 05/28/2010 03:41 PM, Jon wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for this, I can reproduce this.
>
> I have opened bug 619949 to track the issue.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/process_bug.cgi
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jon
> On Fri 28/05/2010 at 14:30:01, Michael Whapples wrote:
>    
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to get orca to inform me about underline text in
> > openoffice writer, but I am not having great success in what I want
> > to achieve.
> >
> > I went to orca preferences and went to text attributes. I check the
> > boxes in the table for speech and braille for underline and go to
> > OK. Now when I open a document with underlined text I find that orca
> > doesn't announce the underline when reading the line (and the
> > braille indication isn't there although I set that to dot-8). Now if
> > I cursor to the character which should be underlined and press
> > orca+f I do hear that it is underlined.
> >
> > My problem with the above behavior is that I must be aware that
> > underline might be used, hence why I want orca to announce it while
> > reading. I am slightly confused why Braille isn't showing this, if I
> > mispell a word in this email I get dot8 under each character of the
> > word.
> >
> > Any help would be useful.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
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