Hi,
but just offer an additional layout mode?More or less, yes. Basically, due to Gecko's native caret navigation being broken, Orca has had to implement its own version. That requires that we decide things like: 1. Where do lines start and end? 2. What is the content of a line? 3. What should we present when a line is moved to? In other words, Orca already is defining "line" by looking at the text (for new lines), by looking at character extents (to see if spatially character 1 and character 2 are on the same line), and so on. All we need to do is add an option which causes lines to also be defined by the start or end of a link. It's really pretty trivial.
yes, but ideally gecko'scaret navigation will get fixed right? Then this will be more complicated. Trev
I would have to say that the direct access to the page seems to work far better than my experience with windows screen readers using virtual buffers (many of the reasons given, the main one being how orca handles dynamically changed pages) and so I would not like to see the current behaviour of orca change.We have no plans to change that behavior -- other than make the experience more performant, and provide an option (which users will have to explicitly enable) to present one link per line.If there's a demand for a given presentation then why not have it as an option particularly if it won't affect your preferred presentation?I agree.Regarding performance of orca and firefox, I wonder if some of the problem really comes from some of the work arounds and checking has to do because of firefox issues.I'd bet money on it, having put many of those work-arounds in place myself. There is a *bunch* of special casing. What I'm hoping to have time to do before long is revisit those various work-arounds to ascertain if they are indeed still needed. Take care. --joanie _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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