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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Glad to see this being discussed and I am very happy to know that NVDA
is being looked at for some ideas on solving some of these problems.
They have really done a fabulous job with Firefox and Thunderbird
accessibility in Windows on that piece of software.

On 8/8/14, Geoff Shang <geoff quitelikely com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>
> > 1. Are you saying: Any time a widget gets focus, Orca would
> >   automatically turn all control over to Gecko? (Yes or no.)
>
> We may need to define "gets focus".
>
> When using NVDA, and probably JAWS as well, some controls like checkboxes
> and radio buttons can be operated without leaving Browse (NVDA) or Virtual
> PC Cursor (JAWS) mode at all.  Combo boxes (as opposed to edit combos),
> which I think are option boxes in Orca (I've not used it for some time,
> show the currently selected item and only interact if they are opened
> (either by pressing enter or something like alt-down which opens as a
> list).
>
> In addition, edit fields which are reached by pressing e or Shift-E are
> not focused immediately.  This is to allow the user to locate a specific
> edit field by repeatedly pressing the e key.  I remember there was some
> considerable discussion along the lines of what we're having here now when
> this was implemented, but I've not seen any calls to revisit the issue.
>
> FWIW, and it may not be related, NVDA has a C++ virtual buffer library
> which I believe is meant to be fairly portable and independent which may
> be of help.  Their initial virtual buffer implementation was in Python but
> it wasn't very efficient.
>
> HTH,
> Geoff.
>
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