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

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I can confirm what you say about navigate by word although I think you 
may be observing something else.

Let me try and explain. When you land on the first word which is 
underlined, the cursor is at the point just in front of the first letter 
(will insert characters in front of the word). If you enter text at this 
point will it be underlined. If no, then openoffice's underline is off, 
but not for the character the cursor is next to. When you get to the 
end, I assume the same theory applies, text you insert will be 
underlined but the character the cursor point refers to is not 
underlined. I think what you hear is the underline toggle button in the 
toolbar. Why I think this is that the positioning of where orca says 
underline on and underline off do not change in the reverse direction.

In a certain way what you hear is not wrong, orca is telling you what 
the underline state is for if you were to enter text, which is exactly 
what you need when writing.

this raises the question whether my original expectation was correct or 
not. I still feel Braille should note text has attributes. Now what 
about speech? Is the behavior of reading underline status be for what 
will be inserted or for the state of the character you are on? Should 
there be multiple messages, "Start underline" and "End underline" when 
referring to existing text and "underline on" and "underline off" when 
referring to underline status for input. I would say in the case of 
cursoring down onto a line speech should tell me where underlined text 
begins and ends, the problem really comes when navigating the line 
(reading the whole line is certainly review, navigating the line may be 
either detailed review or editing).

I think that's as much as I can say at the moment, discuss.

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Paul Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just had a quick play with this.
>
> Confirmed that Orca isn't announcing underlined text when you navigate 
> by character or line.
>
> And that it is not being indicated in braille.
>
> However if you navigate via word (control + left and right) Orca is 
> telling you about the underlined text.
>
> I have a problem with this however.  The message about the underlining 
> being on or off is kicking in at the wrong time.
>
> If navigating to the right, the message about underlining being on is 
> being spoken after the second word which is underlined.
>
> And if you continue past the underlined text, Orca doesn't say 
> "underlined off" until after the second word which is not underlined.
>
> So, if I have the sentance
>
> this is a sentance to test if orca is announcing changes properly
>
> and I underline the words "test if orca is"
>
> I hear the following when control + right arrowing across it;
>
> this
> is
> a
> sentance
> to
> test
> if, underline on
> orca
> is
> announcing
> changes, underline off
> properly
>
> Which makes it sound like the words "if orca is announcing" are the 
> underlined words.
>
> Do you see this behaviour?
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 28/05/10 14:30, 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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