Re: [orca-list] Internet

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I use Windows screen readers that break web sites up as you describe and 
Orca which doesn't, and I very much prefer the way Orca does it. If this 
is implemented, I hope it is a configurable option, and I hope it isn't 
made the default. Of course, I'm just one user, but this is my opinion.

I find reading web sites is much more efficient the way Orca does it. 
With the press of one down arrow key, I jump past the row of links found 
at the top of many a page. If I want to jump from link to link one link 
at a time, I always have the tab key, which will do this for me.

Orca also gives me a sense of how the page is laid out for a sighted 
user, which helps a lot when someone is explaining to me what to do on a 
page or even when I'm explaining something on a web site to a sighted user.

I'm all for taking the best ideas from wherever they come from, but I 
think the way Orca does it is the superior way. I came to Linux and Orca 
from Windows, but I'm opposed to implementing something in Orca just 
because that's how it's implemented in a Windows screen reader. If a 
Windows screen reader got it right then let's use it, but I don't think 
we're doing Windows users any favors if we don't introduce them to a 
better way of doing things.

On 05/16/2015 02:06 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today, Orca, on a line of links, says:
> Home Link 1 Link 2 Link 3
>
> How could we ship a mode to make orca speak one link per line?
> Home
> link 1
> link 2
>
> Is it hard? Just to let user choose (not obligation). Possible? Can you
> give me info to tell devs?
>
> Regards,

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Christopher (CJ)
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