Re: [orca-list] Internet

[covici ccs covici com]

Window-eyes no longer uses a virtual buffer, but it does indeed make
each link on a line by itself which is very handy.  I think Orca can do
this as well, its called something like layout or something in the
preferences -- maybe the application preferences.


Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:

> According to Josh K:
> # NVDA has been able to do this for years.
>
> Orca will thankfully never do it the Windows way. Every Windows screen
> reader known to man as far as I know takes the entirety of the page
> source and reads it into a virtual buffer, essentially replacing the
> browser and interacting with elements as if it is the browser. This
> poses a host of problems, not the least of which are the need to have
> two copies of every web page in memory and the inability to handle
> dynamic content with any level of grace at all. The goal of Orca has
> always been to read what the browser presents to it directly rather than
> hacking itself into its own browser supplement or replacement.
> Therefore, unless a different method of navigation can be implemented
> that can be toggled easily, a browser add-on will need to handle this.
> Please note that I have rarely criticized in a major way the methods by
> which Orca does anything at all, with the exception of some initial bugs
> in the focus modes, but if it goes in the direction of virtual buffers,
> or even looks like it is headed that way, I will become quite vocal in
> my criticism of the way in which it works, and hopefully I won't be the
> only one.
> Sent from my tone generator
> -- 
> "Don't judge my disability until you are able to see my ability."
> ~Kyle: https://kyle.tk/
> My chunk of the internet: https://chunkhost.com/r/Kyle
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