Re: [orca-list] Question about capitalization styles

[covici ccs covici com]

I want capitals verbalized by pitch in all cases where orca is reading
the screen, as far as I can tell.  For instance, its important when
reading a manpage or in many other places.

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:

> Hey all.
>
> As you may know, I added support for verbalized capitalization styles 2
> years ago. It was added in the form of an unbound keybinding so that you
> could cycle it when needed between beeping (aka speech-dispatcher's
> icon), saying "capital" (aka speech-dispatcher's spell), and none.
>
> Because the theory was you would only cycle it on when needed, Orca
> didn't have to be smart about what you were on in order to decide
> whether or not to beep/say cap. It just took your orders (icon, spell,
> none) and handed them off to speech-dispatcher to do its thing.
>
> Now I'm adding GUI support because our failure to have a GUI option for
> this makes us inconsistent with what the cool kids do. <grins> In
> testing the result, I found it uber annoying to hear verbalized
> capitalization in non-editable GUI widgets. So I checked what NVDA does.
> NVDA does not verbalize capitalization in non-editable GUI widgets
> (yay!). But it seems to me that NVDA doesn't verbalize capitalization --
> even in Notepad and Firefox -- unless you arrow by character right up to
> the capital letter. (boo??)
>
> To me, what NVDA does is the opposite extreme: If I indicated that I
> want my screen reader to verbalize capitalization, I don't expect to
> have to arrow by character to get that verbalization. But I want to know
> what you think: If you have enabled verbalized punctuation, when should
> the indication be made? In particular:
>
> 1. What types of objects?
> 2. What type of navigation?
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
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