Re: [orca-list] suggestion. Announce descriptions tied to controls when verbosity is set to verbose

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
If there's a lot of redundant stuff, I wouldn't make it unless the
stuff can be cleaned up either in the apps themselves or in orca.
Personally after you've done all that work on 3.14, I'd take a week's
vacation, or a break, something lol. That was a ton of work getting
firefox knocked into shape
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/25/2014 06:01 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Kendell.
>
> This was done during the 3.13 release cycle as you describe
> already, but only for Gecko content. The reason why is that I've
> discovered a lot of crap in the accessible description in other
> apps and toolkits. But if everyone wants this change, I could
> certainly make it. Happily, there's now a new command to toggle
> spoken verbosity on the fly, so in the face of crap descriptions,
> you at least have an escape route.
>
> Anyhoo, I'm curious to know what other people think. --joanie
>
> On 09/25/2014 04:53 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all. I just came across an interesting suggestion. If you use
> >  orca's where am I function, if an item such as a button, etc has
> > a tool tip or a description, orca will announce these. WOuld it
> > be possible to announce these automatically if orca's verbosity
> > is set to verbose? YOu wouldn't want it when set to brief but
> > maybe for a beginner user it might help them figure out what a
> > given item does. Any thoughts? Thanks Kendell clark 
> > _______________________________________________ orca-list
> > mailing list orca-list gnome org 
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit 
> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The
> > manual is at 
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
>
> >
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find
> > out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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