Re: [orca-list] Informative "Orca"

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Max, all.

On 02/28/2016 03:35 PM, Max wrote:

> 1. I would like to have the opportunity to turn off the announcement of
> links, headings, lists, tables, frames, as well as the items in the
> list. Sometimes, this information, I simply do not need;

Do you mean turn it off completely, or just turn off, say, tables? If
you mean completely and when the page is loading, this can be disabled
by getting in the preferences for that application (Orca+Ctrl+Space). On
the last page of the resulting dialog, you should find an option to
present the summary upon page load. Uncheck it. If instead you mean turn
off just tables, I could add an orca-customizable option.

> 2. I would like to be able to disable the announcement of some
> information. For example, when the focus in the "thunderbird" is set on
> a folder, then after the name of the folder, "orca" says something like
> "row in the table." It is this extra information for me, I would like to
> be able to remove;

If it's just the row that's annoying and everyone agrees it's annoying,
I can make that change. I just started a thread for that. Let's see what
people think.

> 3. I would like to have the opportunity to turn off the announcement of
> the state of trees and branches. For example: I have a familiar
> application to me, and I in him everything I know. Information is
> minimized or maximized, for me in this application is unnecessary. Also,
> in some cases, I do not need levels.

If it's a really familiar app, and you *just* want the displayed text
spoken, get into the application preferences (again Orca+Ctrl+Space). On
the Speech page, you should find "Only speak displayed text". Checking
that should dramatically reduce what Orca says. If that makes Orca say
too little, try instead checking the "Brief" verbosity radio button on
that same page.

On my to-do list for the 3.21/3.22 release is add a new page to the Orca
preferences dialog in which you can customize exactly what is spoken and
what is not spoken for each object type. That will be configurable both
at the default level and the application level. So you should ultimately
be able to have exactly what you want.

--joanie