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



Hey Nolan.

On 08/07/2014 11:39 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Hmm, so with this change, you wouldn't automatically switch to forms
mode when entering input?

Orca doesn't have a forms mode. <smiles> Having said that, another
possibility is to do as I suggested for structural navigation and toggle
caret navigation off and announce that to the user.

The current situation is that if you have Orca's caret navigation
enabled, every time you press a caret navigation key, Orca looks at
where you are and makes a decision about whether or not it should do
actually do that caret navigation. In other words there are times when
Orca is controlling the caret officially but deciding it shouldn't do so
at this particular time. If Orca guesses wrong, you can get stuck in
widgets. Beyond that, each and every time you press an arrow key and
Orca is controlling the caret, it does a bunch of checks to decide
whether or not it really should be or not. This is non-performant.

What the final solution is should be discussed, but whatever it winds up
being, I would suggest in includes setting toggling. The toggling can be
done by the user or it could be done automatically by Orca and
announced. The one thing that seems to be filled with failure is not
toggling it and trying to guess if Orca really should control it.

--joanie



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