Re: [orca-list] gnome shell, orca and alt+escape

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

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Hi Robert
Thanks for the information.

Using your example try the following:
1. Press alt+tab until you find the firefox application but do not
release the alt key.
2. Press the down arrow key.
3. Press the left or the right arrow until you find the disired window.
4. Release the alt key.

On 10/04/2012 03:21 AM, Robert Cole wrote:
> Hello, José.
>
> I see the same behavior. Orca does announce windows when using 
> ALT+Tab and ALT+` (the grav key, located above the tab key). If
> you do not know this, you use ALT+Tab to switch between
> applications, and you use ALT+` to switch between opened windows of
> a given application.
>
> Here's a small example. Say that my open windows are as follows:
>
> *One Terminal window *Two Firefox windows (one opened to 
> DistroWatch.com and the other opened to Linux Journal's Web site) 
> *Thunderbird
>
> Say I am in the terminal window, but I want to get to the Firefox 
> window which displays the Linux Journal Web site. I would use 
> ALT+Tab to switch to the Firefox application listing, and when 
> there I would use ALT+` to switch between the different open 
> instances (or windows) of Firefox until I arrive at the Linux 
> Journal page.
>
> Orca announces things in this scenario, but not when using 
> ALT+Escape. I actually did not know about the ALT+Escape key 
> combination until you mentioned it here on the list.
>
> I apologize if the information which I just mentioned was something
> which you already knew about.
>
> Take care.
>
> On 10/03/2012 10:49 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote: Hi 
> all.
>
> Today I decided to experiment gnome shell in my Ubuntu 12.04, and 
> to my surprise, I found that the accessibility is excellent. 
> CONGRATULATIONS!
>
> A small problem is related to the behaviour of the alt+esc key. If 
> I learned correctly, the alt+esc can b used to switch between 
> windows. The problem is that  orca doesn't announce the name of
> the window while cycling between windows using alt+esc. The
> announce is made only after I release the alt key. This is not good
> if I have many windows opened.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.
>
>
> -- {}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
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