Re: [orca-list] Finer refinement of keyecho now committed to master

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

Action was my first thought as well, but I can think of many potential users, who will want space but do not 
want action keys echoed. 
I wiill be checking all three categories, but do not always have action keys echoed. I usually do echo action 
keys however, so this is no great 
inconvenience. On the other hand, I can hardly imagine anyone who wants to hear letters echoed as they type 
being bothered much by spaces, so feel 
fairly strongly it should be in both categories.
 

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     B.H.
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  Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:00:36AM -0500

> Hey all.
>
> I have just committed the change I referred to in the other thread so
> you can now control which types of printable characters are echoed. The
> old "alphanumeric and punctuation" checkbox has been replaced with three
> new ones:
>
> 1. Alphabetic
> 2. Numeric
> 3. Punctuation
>
> Hopefully what each is is self-explanatory. As also mentioned in the
> other thread, there was the question of where to put space. I thought
> Action and Rob thought Action, and it's still early in the 3.19 release
> cycle, so for now it's in Action. Thus if you want the old Orca style of
> echo all the things, you will want to check: Alphabetic, Numeric,
> Punctuation, and Action. Test master and see what you think. We can
> always tweak it before 3.20 ships.
>
> As you test, you'll notice that if you have any key echo enabled and you
> press keys in a password entry, Orca will say "star" or "asterisks" or
> whatever regardless of what type of printable character it is. Here's
> why: Imagine you only need number keys echoed and have configured Orca
> accordingly. Now you're entering your password and I'm walking by your
> desk. I hear "click click star star click". You've just given me a clue
> that your password is two non-numbers followed by two-numbers followed
> by one non-number. Seems bad. So in this case, Orca will echo "star star
> star star star" unless you have key echo completely disabled. Hope this
> makes sense and is to your liking.
>
> Lastly, before you test the console setup and discover that the new
> options, while there, are not getting saved, please see my earlier email
> to this list in which I indicate the entire console setup seems to have
> been broken for years. Focus on testing the GUI-based support. <smile>
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
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