Re: [orca-list] Clean up of Live Regions has begun! Try Google Docs

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

On 6/2/2015 8:10 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Lastly, you must enable the Google Docs live regions hack. You can do
> this by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Z. This is a Google thing; not an Orca
> thing. 


What specifically does this hack do as per the above?

Interesting that you note a 1-2 second delay for Orca to speak live
regions. I toyed around with writing a few audio game experiments when I
used Linux, and used live regions to speak game information to the
player (I.e. pressing C speaks coordinates.) I noticed this delay and
found that it made things impractical, since coordinates would be spoken
a second or two after they were requested. Under Windows/NVDA, I don't
notice this delay. So if the delay is a matter of code, and if that
delay is the nature of the above hack, it might be a good idea to remove
it. Not sure why one might want a delay when speaking live regions,
"polite" aside. :) Apologies, should have filed it as an issue, only at
the time I was battling a less mature Web Audio API and dealing with a
bunch of other Firefox issues, so it got lost in the shuffle.