Re: [orca-list] Internet

["B.Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

It's just so much nicer to run links or elinks from a console, and using 
highlight tracking will speak one link per line in most text based 
browsers in many but not all situations.
I don't really use links to tell the truth, so will have to check 
behavior, but in lynx and more so on elinks this is pretty reliable on 
many pages. Sometimes there are interesting cases depending on layout 
where things will be spoken differently depending on whether you go up 
or down the page. I don't use this all that much as I mostly rely on 
numbers and or counting to tell me what I need to know to follow links.
I do use textbased browsers a lot, but have never done so for much more 
than a quick trial  from a GUI. If I'm missing something by not doing so 
more often, please let me know, but I can't think of what it would be.
Do images automatically     display or something, or is it the same as 
running in a console i.e. enter on one and it is displayed?

     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886

On 16/05/15 04:08 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