[orca-list] Website layouts and orca

["Andy B." <sonfire11 gmail com>]

Hi.

I am sort of confused. I do web development for a living. I recently 
migrated to ubuntu permanently because of a Windows crash that wiped my 
drive out totally. I am used to the way that JAWS, WE, NVDA and all of 
the other types of windows based screen readers lay out the pages 
virtual buffer. In this case, by default they are set to display a 
single element on a line by itself. Examples are individual links, table 
columns flash players, headings and so on.

It looks like orca lays it out just like a sighted person were to see 
it. The problem is that it gets very confusing to find/get to different 
places on the page and it is hard to understand the layout of the page 
itself. An example is in drupal 7. When signed in as super user (user1), 
and looking at the homepage of a stock install, it looks like you have 
headings on the left side of the screen and links on the right side of 
the screen that are somehow related to the headings on the left. Like I 
said, I am used to being fed a page with individual elements on a line 
by itself. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get over this and be 
able to get around on pages just as fast?