Re: [orca-list] Some bugs with perhaps possible fixing in master branch

["Fernando H. F. Botelho" <fernando botelho f123 org>]

Hi Joanie, Krishnakant, and all,

My apologies for answering the initial email from Krishnakant without 
reaching first the end of the discussion.

I understand Joanie's reasoning. Does anybody have one or more 
accessible clipboard applications that we could try out?

Thanks,

Fernando



On 06/02/2012 12:02 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Krishnakant.
>
> On 06/02/2012 03:00 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> > Whis this discussion happens,
> > I wished to bring to the notice of every one a small irritant which
> > should be addressed some day.
> > I purposely use the word "irritant " because I don't see this as a bug.
> > When text is selected, orca says "selected " and repeats the text as well.
> > But when I press ctrl + c, it does not say any thing.
> > Should it not tell me some thing like "copied  to clipboard " or some
> > thing like that for cut as well?
>
> Periodically this issue gets raised and the reason it gets raised is
> thanks to JAWS.<sighs>
>
> A bazillion years ago, when I taught JAWS on a daily basis, I always
> found it amusing that JAWS said text was copied to the clipboard when
> you pressed Ctrl+C. It didn't matter if text was actually copied or not.
> Sometimes it wasn't, but JAWS didn't care: It said what it said in
> response to the keybinding. Later on, I believed they fixed that by
> actually looking at the clipboard contents before declaring success.
>
> Regardless.... As a sighted user, when I press Ctrl+C I have no idea if
> I were successful or not until I go to paste it. Sometimes I paste
> nothing. Other times I paste earlier contents. It's a bit of a drag.
> Fortunately, there are clipboard utilities. I would rather see those
> utilities work with Orca than add monitoring and presenting of the
> clipboard to the list of tasks Orca is expected to do.
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
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