[orca-list] speech rate key bindings only partly work

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Greetings!  With all the Orca revamping going on, I'm not sure now is 
the best time to bring this up, but it seems to have been a problem for 
a while.

I created key bindings alt-control-f and alt-control-s to speed up or 
slow down the Orca speech rate respectively.  When I press the key I 
want repeatedly, Orca will say "faster" or "slower" with increasing or 
decreasing speed, as I expect.  Sometimes, as when I'm arrowing through 
links on a Web page, it will speak at the rate I've set.  Other times, 
such as on other parts of a Web page, in the actual text of a Bookshare 
book I'm reading with the Web reader, or in a text document using gedit, 
Orca will read at the old rate regardless of what I've done with my 
bound keys.

I usually have Orca going as fast as it can, but for reading books and 
some other things I need it slower.  Those seem to be the situations in 
which the key(s) do not work.  Am I missing something here?

Thanks!

Al