Re: [orca-list] announcement of page numbers

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

I don't use LO writer much, nor any similar program, but this is a close to must have feature. 
I like the hot key idea as well, but the minimum should be reporting page changes.



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  Nick Wood wrote:
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:50:45PM +0100

> Hi Kendell,
>
> I'd sure appreciate such a feature in Libreoffice Writer.
>
> One of the things I liked on my Windows/JAWS/Word setup was that
> every time you changed pages, JAWS would announce "Page 1", "Page 2"
> etc.
>
> I've never come across a similar feature in Writer - I think Orca
> remains silent when you cross a page boundary.
>
> So to expand on your original request:  What would be great would be
> to have something like a hot key to report the current page number,
> and also an announcement each time you navigated to a different
> page.
>
> Thoughts? I've no idea if page information is exposed via any of the
> accessibility APIs - one for Joanie perhaps :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick
>
> On 20/04/16 10:35, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all
> > I've noticed a feature missing that I thought might be useful. That's
> > announcement of page numbers in word processors, document viewers, etc.
> > I'm not absolutely certain this feature is missing so if it's there, I
> > apologize for my ignorance. Would it be possible to add this and make it
> > configurable? This would be really convenient in apps like libre office
> > or evince, but could be useful in other apps as well. I can't remember
> > if this has been brought up on hear before. If so, I apologize for the
> > spam. What does everyone else think? Would this be a good idea? One
> > thing I'm not sure of is if there's a standard way of calculating page
> > numbers, or if it's app specific?
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
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