hi I can confirm bugs 2 and three, and both are likely firefox's fault. I don't know whether there are bugs filed against either orca or firefox, but joannie knows about them and is working to fix them. Bug 4, the speech-dispatcher one, is definitely something in either speech-dispatcher or orca's speech-dispatcher module. Sorry to get technical. I assume you're usint the espeak synthesizer, since voxin IE eloquence, doesn't have the capitalization issue. That's What causes it, when speech-dispatcher encounters either a word that has a capital letter in it, or an all caps word, it raises the pitch like it's supposed to, but forgets to lower it. Here in arch, it goes away after a few seconds, but it might not in ubuntu. Ubuntu is known for mixing components from different gnome versions, some from 3.12, some from 3.10 and 3.8, so accessibility can have weird quirks. The issue where orca gets stuck on words is extremely annoying and hard to track down exactly what causes it. I get that here in arch as well, both in the latest orca versions from git and the latest available in the arch repos, v3.12.I didn't know about the punctuation bug, bug that needs fixing. That's likely an orca issue or more likely a speech-dispatcher one. Thanks Kendell clark On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 07:23:38PM -0430, Luis González wrote:
Hello list! I'm writing to you because I'm experiencing the following four problems: 1. Each time Orca reads two ampersand symbols (& simbol) together, and the punctuation level is set to all; it reads this: "ampersand ampersand amp semicolon" Similar to the XML sintaxis 2. When browsing Internet, sometimes the cursor skips to the end of the page or skips a hole paragraph. I don't know exactly what triggers this behavior, but I think it's related to tables and it happens frequently. A good example of this is the Orca's list subscription page: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Where the following paragraph is skiped and there is no way to read it (although using the keyboard, if I click it I can read it successfully): " ATTENTION: Web based subscription are disabled, you can subscribe to orca-list ... " I've also experienced this when I try to read a citation on GMail (I use basic HTML view). I'll try to figure out what exactly triggers this. 3. Also when browsing Internet, when I try to read a text word by word (ctrl+right) the cursor gets stuck. For instance, if I try to read this way the Orca's Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29 ) Which says: "Orca is a free and open source, flexible, extensible screen reader..."; I reach the word "source", then the cursor goes back to the word "free" (I presume it gets stuck on links). 4. When I use Orca for a long time, the voice turns confusing, sounds like it was set up an extremely hight speed; and I need to manually kill speech dispatcher (I use killall speech-dispatcher with my own user). I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, Firefox 31.0 and Orca 3.10.3. If there is any else I can do to help this bugs to be fixed, please let me know! -- Salu2 Luis F. González V. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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