Re: [orca-list] Your opinion regarding caret control in Gecko

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

+1

On 08/07/2014 11:13 AM, Luis González wrote:
> I'd agree. In the end, I almost the time have to (or do it anyway)
> switch it manually.
>
> In addition, I think it isn't something hard to learn: simply when you
> want to write something or fill a form turn it off, otherwise kip it
> turned on.
>
> 2014-08-07 9:22 GMT-04:30, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>:
> > Hey all.
> >
> > I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that heuristically trying to
> > identify when Orca should control the caret and when Orca should not
> > (e.g. in ARIA apps, form fields, etc.) is the source of quite a few bugs
> > -- and it doesn't help performance because each time you arrow, Orca
> > needs to do work to determine if it is handling things or not.
> >
> > As a result, here's what I'm thinking/wondering: What if Orca always
> > controls the caret when that setting is enabled? This would be somewhat
> > like forms mode: When you want to interact with a form control -- or an
> > ARIA app -- using the arrow keys, you would turn off caret navigation by
> > pressing Orca + F12. When you wanted to move around in the text, you
> > would turn on caret navigation by pressing Orca + F12. Orca would stop
> > doing this automatically.
> >
> > The biggest con I see is that the user needs to know what he or she is
> > in and that this needs to be toggled. The pros are that it, along with
> > some additional changes, should make it possible for you to arrow to
> > anything and it would be more performant. And bugs like the problems Al
> > reported would be eliminated entirely.
> >
> > Please let me know what you think.
> > --joanie
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