Re: [orca-list] A suggestion to improve orca on the web

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I too have wished for this several times.  I think hitting ther escape
key would be an excellent way to do this if/when implemented.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:07:04AM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> One thing that sometimes annoys me about orca is that if I am on the
> web and I press the wrong navigation key (eg. may be I just forgot
> what object I want to move to or may be I am not in an edit box when
> I think I am), I have no way of cancelling the action. This is
> annoying because while orca's performance has improved over time, it
> still can take a long time for orca to move to the next structural
> element (eg. header) This slowness is particularly bad when going
> backwards and when structural navigation wraps to the top or bottom
> (dependent on direction of navigation). Currently I have to wait for
> orca to finish looking for the next structural element, and then I
> must get back to where I want to be (which also can take time).
>
> What I am asking for, is a way to be able to cancel the orca
> structural navigation action. I would imagine such a feature would
> place me back on the web page where I was before I started the
> action which I cancelled.
>
> At the moment this is something I have thought "it would be really
> good if orca could do", I haven't yet done any looking into how
> possible it would be to add such a feature into orca. I imagine that
> those who know more about how orca's structural navigation works
> probably could easily tell me whether such a feature is technically
> possible or not. If such a feature would be possible, should I make
> a feature request in bugzilla? Also do other people feel such a
> feature would be of use?
>
> Michael Whapples
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