Re: [orca-list] Orca and Pidgin

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Joanie.

Yes, the status selector is expanded. When it has the focus,, and not 
expanded, Orca says "Status Selector toggle button not pressed". I tried 
to use the up and down arrow keys to try to navigate it while it is not 
expanded, but the next available window element is selected rather than 
traversing the list of statuses.

I believe that Dave Hunt wrote to me and mentioned that he did not have 
this problem. On this Linux Mint system Pidgin version 2.10.0 is used as 
well as Orca 3.2.1. this isn't a big problem for me, but I just wanted 
to post in case anyone else knew or did not know about it. I am going to 
keep tinkering with this, though, and see what happens.

Thanks for the reply, and for all of the hard work!

On 01/06/2012 12:45 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Robert.
>
> > but if I would for example
> > change my status from Available to Busy or Away, pressing the '5' key on
> > the numpad announces the first status option (Available as opposed to
> > announcing the currently highlighted status.
> If by highlighted you literally mean highlighted, I'm guessing that you
> have the combo box expanded (i.e. so that all the options are shown on
> screen at once). In which case the accessible item is a menu and Orca
> (by original design) does not allow one to flat-review menus. See the
> following bug (which is one option -- but not the only one) I will be
> implementing to help alleviate the greyed-out menu item problem:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667087
>
> In the meantime, if you change the selection by not expanding the combo
> box first, but just Up/Down Arrowing, does Orca read the combo box as
> its value changes?
>
> Take care.
> --joanie