Re: [orca-list] Orca now has a "sticky" browse mode

[covici ccs covici com]

Thanks much -- you are terrific!

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:

> Hey all.
>
> As you (hopefully) know, Orca has a "sticky" focus mode which you can
> use on web applications in which Orca's automatic mode switching is
> incorrect. I have just added the browse mode equivalent to Orca master.
> The default keybinding is Orca + A triple click.
>
> The primary/official purpose of "sticky" browse mode to make it possible
> for you to keep automatic mode switching enabled (if you like that
> functionality). But on those pages where Orca keeps putting you into
> focus mode when you wish it wouldn't, you can stop Orca from doing so.
>
> There is a secondary/unofficial purpose too. As you may have seen in the
> thread regarding Orca navigating to content in elements with
> role="application," if Orca found content that looks like
> caret-navigable text, Orca would try to let you navigate in it. The
> theory being that a proper web application would not contain just a
> bunch of text. And if an "application" did have a bunch of text, Orca
> should not prevent you from reading it. But as Nolan pointed out, that's
> not fully in keeping with the ARIA spec. So I have changed Orca's
> behavior: If Orca is controlling the caret (aka browse mode), Orca will
> not move you into text inside elements with role="application". That
> solves the spec compliance issue. However, if an author puts
> role="application" around a bunch of text, you can override Orca in
> order to read that text by enabling sticky browse mode.
>
> Lastly, the way you can identify that you may be in such a case is that
> Orca says "embedded" for a particular item and you can find no way to
> interact with that embedded content. If that happens, arrow to just
> before that content, enabled sticky browse mode, and then try to arrow
> into it. If suddenly a bunch of normal text content becomes readable, it
> is likely that the author slapped role="application" on an element where
> it didn't belong.
>
> I hope this new mode is of use. Please let me know if you find any
> issues with it. Thanks!
>
> --joanie
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