Re: [orca-list] Firefox - Gaps in hiperlinks and the automatic forms mode

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On the links matter, I don't know whether this helps but there are other 
times when using read all in firefox orca will have a big pause, using 
gnome-speech instead of speech-dispatcher seems to help there so may be 
it will not show the problem you describe.

As for automatic forms mode, what forms mode? Orca does not use forms 
mode at all, you are always interacting directly with the page in 
firefox, therefore when you give a control (eg. edit box) focus you are 
interacting with that control.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Luciano de Souza wrote:
> Hi listers,
>
> Reading texts in Firefox, two problems disturbs the pleasure of the 
> reading:
>
> 1. If I am in a text with a large numbers of hiperlinks like 
> Wikipedia, for each of then, a gap of silence rises, interupting 
> brefiely the reading. If the number of the hiperlinks is really big, 
> it's more profitable to copy the text into Gedit and read it there.
>
> 2. When I am navigating by means of  arrows, often I come across edit 
> boxes. Orca leaves the navigation mode to enter in forms mode. As it 
> is not rare I want to follow the reading without typing anything in 
> the edit box, I would prefer that forms mode was activated by user 
> request. I don't know if Orca allows the manual entrance in the forms 
> mode. If the answer is "yes", I would like to know how to disable the 
> automatic forms mode.
>
> I don't like the automatic forms mode, but I recognise this aspect is 
> appreciated by many people. However, disregarding the personal 
> preferences, there is another aspect disturbing the reading flow. If 
> Orca is reading consecutive lines and a form is found, the automatic 
> forms mode is activated, the cursor is placed in the begining of the 
> edit box and the reading is suddenly interrupted. It's much probable 
> that, in this hypothesis, the intention of users was to follow reading 
> and paging down.
>
> Using Orca 2.32.0, is there solution for this problems?
>
> Regards,
>
> Luciano