hi I am definitely in favor of this. I would change one thing, if possible. Would it be possible to generate eitehr an audio cue or a spoken message to the effect that you are in forms mode, or not, as needed? I'd also add, that orca should analyze the document being read, and if it's all text, with no form fields, for example daisy books, it will enable carrot mode altogether and maybe not allow it to be toggled? Just my two cents Kendell clark On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:52:53AM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ 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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