Re: [orca-list] Delay in ARIA live region announcement

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Javier.

The use of live regions in this fashion strikes me as a sad hack. Having
said that, I can try to hack around their hack.

--joanie

On 05/26/2015 11:10 AM, Francisco Javier Dorado Martínez wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Frequently I need to work with Google documents. Although Orca's has
> good support for ARIA applications, I found there is too much time
> between announcements for live region updates. This is no problem for
> many applications, but when you
> have to work editing or reading a document it's a bit unresponsive.
> I have tried to change politeness level but without luck, Orca takes up
> to 2 seconds for announcing changes.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Login to Google Drive and create a new document, or spreadsheet
> 2. Enable sticky focus mode by pressing a twice.
> 3. Type some text and use arrows to read it
>
> Google's uses a live region to present messages when you move the caret
> or perform any operation.
> Orca takes up to 2 seconds to speak changes for this live region.
>
> Can we modify this behaviour? is there any setting I can change to
> adjust tthe delay between announcements?
>
> Any help would be very appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Regards,
> Javier
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