Re: [orca-list] Experimental focus versus browse mode committed to master

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

This has promise, and so far has worked pretty well.
I have not updated since sometime last night, so if the issue I describe has been addredssed, please excuse 
me.
I may have missed a messae that pertains to this as the traffic's rather heavy, and I've not gotten through 
all my mail; 
also may have inadvertently deleted something I hadn't read.
When in a combo box it's not at all efficient to havwe to either tab out and back in to continue down the 
list, or use 
orca-a each time to leave browse mode.
This seems to be more or less universal, but I've not tested on many sites. Mostly I'm experiencing this on 
the 
callcentric.com site, but you'd need an account to see it as I've been configuring a new account in the user 
porthole 
pages.
This kind of control needs to stay in the focus mode untilone manually leaves it to have a practical user 
experience.
Some pages seem to be quite a bit more responsive when navigating down with arrows now, and although I sure 
don't like all 
those extra keystroikes the mode changes were happening as fast as I was typing, so for sure you are on to 
something here.
Regards,
--
B.H.

 
  
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 04:40:17PM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> Based on the feedback received, I have just committed the following
> changes to master:
>
> * Orca will automatically switch between "focus mode" and "browse mode"
>
> * Orca will announce "focus mode" or "browse mode" when it does this
>   for you. It is currently at the end of the presentation of the new
>   location. That way, if you know what the deal is (of course it is in
>   focus mode now), you don't have to listen to Orca tell you. You can
>   just keep browsing or interacting with the widget.
>
> * The current keybinding is Orca + A. This will toggle between the two
>   modes. I chose this because we needed something for you to test. And
>   it was the only suggestion I saw proposed by y'all which didn't
>   conflict with existing bindings or result in complaints from someone
>   else. If y'all don't like Orca + A, propose something we all can live
>   with or rebind it to something you can live with.
>
> * All the non-perfomant and non-reliable logic about whether or not Orca
>   should really control things is ripped out. Arrowing seems a bit more
>   peppy to me now. I hope you find the same.
>
> What I have not committed/done yet:
> * Playing tones. That's a nice to have. We can add it later.
> * Documentation. We don't know what the final feature will look like.
> * Settings. Orca does it automatically. It's easy to toggle off.
>
> What would be extremely helpful is testing from you to see what you all
> think. What is totally broken, what must be changed, etc. In the
> meantime, I'll see what I can do about the looping, etc.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
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