Re: [orca-list] Your opinion on automatically toggling structural navigation keys

[Fernando Botelho <Fernando Botelho F123 org>]

I agree with this suggestion for times when verbosity is off.

Fernando


On 08/07/2014 01:33 PM, Mike Gorse wrote:
> Maybe it should make a tone, or a couple of tones, similar to what 
> NVDA does when switching in and out of forms mode. It would consume 
> much less time than uttering something like "structural navigation off."
>
> -Mike
>
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>
> > Hey again.
> >
> > I have a related question for you regarding structural navigation.
> > Currently, if you navigate into a form field like an entry or a combo
> > box, you cannot use structural navigation to move to the next entry or
> > combo box until you get out of the current field. This is, of course,
> > because if you are in an entry, "e" should type an "e". But the act of
> > getting out of the field in order to then find the next field is a drag.
> > I have a new proposed behavior:
> >
> > When focus goes into a field where typing letters should be handled by
> > that field, structural navigation keys if enabled are automatically
> > toggled off. For users with a verbosity level set to verbose, Orca would
> > announce that structural navigation was toggled off. That way, when you
> > are ready to move to the next entry or combo box or whatever, you can
> > just toggle them back on (with Orca + Z) and then press e for the next
> > entry or c for the next combo box, etc.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > --joanie
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