Re: [orca-list] How to use spellcheckers with Orca?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I'll take a look. Thanks for the report!
--joanie

On 01/20/2016 07:57 AM, luciano de souza wrote:
> It's important to add one information else.
>
> I agreed that Thunderbird and Firefox worked well with spellchecker
> becose I remembered it's true.
>
> However, I had not tested. Afterwards, I tested and I got a surprising
> answer. Orca is not reading wrong words, when navigating with arrows,
> even if when I talk about thunderbird and Firefox!
>
> So the problem is much more generalized.
>
> I use Triskel 7.0, based in Ubuntu 14.10. Could be this fact the
> reason for this bad behaviour?
>
> 2016-01-20 9:28 GMT-02:00, luciano de souza <luchyanus gmail com>:
> > Yes, that's true. In Thunderbird and Firefox, it works very well.
> >
> > In Writer, on the Tools menu, I find the option Language. But all is
> > already set to portuguese.
> >
> > Actually, I have already imagined it. When I am on a wrong word, by
> > means of application menu, I can correct the word. In other words, the
> > spellcheck is active and it's possible to make corrections.
> >
> > The problem is that Orca does not read automaticaly that an mistake is
> > present. The expected behaviour is that observed in Thunderbird and
> > Firefox interactions.
> >
> > In order to verify if the problem is about portuguese implementation
> > of Writer spellcheck, I wrote a paragraph in English. So by the
> > application menu, I define the language of paragraph as english. I
> > wrote strawberr in stead of strawberry. On the application menu, I
> > really found the correct spellling and I could change it. But only
> > scanning with arrows, no Orca does not say anything as it does in
> > Thunderbird and Firefox.
> >
> > I am using Orca 3.18.1 and LibreOffice 4.2.8.2
> >
> > 2016-01-20 7:53 GMT-02:00, Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Luciano
> > > Firstly Orca works very well with spellcheck.
> > > If you try this in Thunderbird or Firefox, any wrong word will be
> > > announced
> > > as miss speled.
> > > then you can move to that word with arrows and right click with the Orca
> > > mouce click keys.
> > > With Libre office, the issue is not about Orca, perhaps you have not set
> > > your default language for all text.
> > > In the tools menu you will get language selection go to all text and then
> > > select your language.
> > > Now the Orca behaviour will be of some use because the spell check will
> > > be
> > > active.
> > > Happy hakcing.
> > > Krishnakant.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 20 January 2016 10:43 AM, luciano de souza wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I was not able to use the spellchecker in Libreoffice Writer.
> > > >
> > > > If I am on a wrongly writen word, by means of application menu, I can
> > > > choose the correct word.
> > > >
> > > > But Orca does not say anything when a uncorrect word is found.
> > > >
> > > > So my questions are:
> > > > 1. With Orca, is it possible to use spellchecker in Libreoffice Writer?
> > > > 2. Without Writer, is there another way to use a spellchecker which
> > > > interacts good with Orca?
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> >
> >
> > --
> > Luciano de Souza