Re: [orca-list] Structural HTML navigation by lists

[Marcus Habermehl <bmh1980de yahoo de>]

Am 26.01.2011 16:19, schrieb Michael Whapples:
> Hello,
> You say you don't get the number of keypresses argument. Here goes: As I
> have stated in previous messages your list idea is certainly optional in
> use, I gave myself as an example of someone who never needs to use it
> and others also have said so, we can get around web pages perfectly fine
> with the previous/next element keys already existing. You mentioned flat
> review, which I have shown is needed, and so possibly deserves the space
> of the numpad as it currently occupies. Optional features generally I
> don't think should dominate the keyboard so much unless they have a
> strong reason.

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I think I have misunderstood you. You have written key presses, as I see
now. But I was thinking you are talking about keybindings/shortcuts. Sorry.

> Now to my comment that we are dealing with orca in gnome. My point here
> is that it doesn't matter what other screen reader users do, those
> screen readers have their own history for why certain things went
> certain ways and possibly have different target audiences. As an example
> to this, users of windows screen readers are more likely to include
> those users who just want to buy a computer and for things to work,
> where as Linux users are more likely to want to explore/modify/tweak
> there computer systems. I think a strong proposal for features for orca
> should be strong independent of what other screen readers do, so should
> not need reference to what other screen readers do and should deal with
> such questions like: Why might an orca user want it? How does it improve
> on what orca does at the moment?

This is largely true. But in case of this lists it's an existing feature
request in bugzilla and it's part of Orca's roadmap. Therefore, I am
sure that this isn't such an useless feature.

However, I agree that we can save keybindings if we using the menu,
instead of the treeview.

Greetings
Marcus