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

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Hi Joanie,
half way through your email, I was thinking of exactly the same idea.
so 100% +1
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Thursday 07 August 2014 09:09 PM, 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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