Re: [orca-list] Solving "going all over the page" when trying to type in a textbox

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey again Kyle, all.

Sorry for the delay. Been a weird one.... I have just committed a
candidate fix for the DuckDuckGo problem to master. If you and others
could pull master and let me know if the behavior is what you'd expect
and want, that would be great. If it is -- or at least if it's a
significant improvement without any noticeable regressions, I commit the
change to the 3.14 branch.

On to YouTube! <smiles>
--joanie

On 11/11/2014 10:35 AM, Kyle wrote:
> Yes, automatic focus mode when using structural navigation appears to
> solve part of the problem, but a different bug may be causing most of
> the problems I'm having. Going to
> https://duckduckgo.com/
> puts me on the search box and switches to focus mode automatically.
> However, Orca very soon says "finished loading DuckDuckGo," and typing
> into the textbox starts taking me all over the page. I'm also seeing
> strange behavior in Youtube, where I am only allowed to type two to
> three letters into the search box before it kicks me out of focus mode
> and has me navigating again. I often find myself having to press extra
> keystrokes to be sure I'm in focus mode or make it sticky in these
> situations, in which case, I have to be sure I've turned it off again
> once I'm done with it, which is a major slowdown by the time I realize
> what I'm doing wrong. I apologize for such strong words regarding the
> focus mode, but I have yet to see anything similar that didn't decrease
> my productivity on websites. The problems I have here are quite similar
> to problems I had in other screen readers some years back in other
> operating systems that implemented such strategies, and it has always
> caused frustration when I end up somewhere different from where I should
> be. Thanks for any help resolving these issues.