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

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com> wrote:
> Well I am sorry perhaps I'll ask too much but please try to at least
> consider this. We all are kind of jealous that on Windows while using
> Firefox and NVDA they have verry good accessibility support and switching
> into / out of focus mode is kind of automatic and it is usually right so why
> not to try borrowing some ideas from them.  I know it may not be that easy
> but I am thinking that although we originally wanted to have something
> completelly different on linux avoiding forms mode vs browse mode paradigm
> now we are about to introduce something verry similar. 

Another alternative would be for Orca to provide its own navigation commands
(similar to what flat review does now, but capable of navigating the entire
widget hierarchy rather than just the text), then to move the focus appropriately
if the user wants focus to follow the review cursor.