Re: [orca-list] Please test profile-based language switching

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Update: In addition to the items below, if you use the command to switch
profiles to select a different language and then get into the Orca prefs
dialog, the bulk of the dialog content is in the chosen language. Ditto
for Orca's app-specific prefs dialog. There are some bugs and to-do
items which I am still working on, but this is really starting to shape
up! Happy, happy, joy, joy! <smiles>

On 02/19/2013 01:45 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> There are two kinds of language switching we ultimately want to make
> possible in Orca:
>
> 1. Detecting the language of an object and automatically switching to
>    the appropriate synthesizer (if you enabled that in a setting).
> 2. Allowing you to switch synthesizers on the fly and have Orca use
>    that language when presenting stuff to you.
>
> I've done quite a bit of work on 2. And before I do the .90 release
> later today, it would be helpful if those of you who are able to test
> master do so.
>
> To test:
>
> 1. Without doing any language switching, just use Orca and be sure no
>    messages that Orca used to present have suddenly disappeared.
>    Likewise, be sure that messages Orca used to present in your native
>    language have not suddenly reverted to English.
>
> 2. If you have not already done so, create a profile with an alternative
>    language speech synthesizer selected. Having done so and saved it,
>    bind the command associated with cycling amongst profiles. Then use
>    Orca switching between profiles. You should find that messages that
>    are strictly feedback from Orca (e.g. Punctuation level set to Some,
>    Faster, Slower, No more headings found, etc.) are in the new language
>    assuming that language has been translated.