Re: [orca-list] Internet

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

NVDA has been able to do this for years. ;you can choose line by line 
links layout or you can check a box and then it displays it as it is 
shown on screen mostly with multiple links per line like orca does it.

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On 5/16/2015 5:08 PM, Kyle wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I think adding an option to display each link on
> its own line would require changing the way that Orca sees the page
> layout, so would most likely be non-trivial and impractical to
> implement. On the other hand, perhaps a bug I've seen while shopping on
> Amazon could be exploited to make this work. The bug in question does
> something very much like this, but it breaks up text at arbitrary
> locations. For example, if I search for a product and then navigate
> using the arrows below a specific result's heading, the average rating
> is posted. It should look something like
> 4.1 out of 5 stars
> Instead, Orca is seeing it as
> 4.1
> out
> of 5
> star
> s
> Indicating that what you want may be possible, it just needs to be
> hacked in somehow to exploit behavior like this when desired, e.g. when
> entering or exiting link text, but fix it up when it's not desired, say
> on an Amazon search result for example. In any case, it sounds like what
> you really need isn't so much having each link on its own line, but
> instead to have the ability to choose to force the up and down arrow
> keys to navigate by element rather than by line, which may be possible.
> The only problem I see with that is that large text objects such as
> paragraphs would need to be broken at an arbitrary length, e.g. 25 words
> or something similar, which may be impractical or otherwise non-trivial
> to implement, but seems like it would serve a better purpose than
> singling out links and trying to force them onto lines by themselves.
> Perhaps something like this could be a navigation granularity setting
> that would be switchable from the keyboard within the browser as well as
> from the browser's individual Orca preferences.
> Sent from my random thought generator