Re: [orca-list] Proposal: Locking key state will always be announced

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Andy.

On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 17:40 -0500, Andy B wrote:
> Ok. Makes sense; however, Orca still runs with speech turned on.

I'm not sure I get your point here.

>  For this reason, locking keys still need to be announced.

They will be, when Orca is doing its normal thing.

>  This is a normal standard most AT developers have. On the other hand,
> maybe we want to be different than them?

I'm not sure I follow you here, either.

>  Either way, can we have some sort of alert put in the settings
> somewhere that mentions something about announce displayed text only
> is a setting for cognative disabilities?

An alert? In the settings? I'm not so sure about that. In the existing
documentation, however, is the following statement:

        Only speak displayed text
        
        Checking this checkbox causes Orca to only speak actual text
        displayed on screen. This option is intended primarily for low
        vision users and users with a visual learning disability.

I can add a statement to the effect that NumLock and CapsLock state
changes will not be announced if that setting is set.

Thoughts?

Take care.
--joanie