Re: [orca-list] page number reading

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kendell.

This is on my to-do list. Part of the fix will need to be in the apps
themselves though, implementing the page-changed signal.

--joanie

On 06/09/2016 05:25 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> I think I may have brought this up once before, but I can't remember for
> sure. I've got a couple of people, including mellisa, asking me if orca
> can read page numbers. I know she in particular has gotten used to
> hearing page numbers using this program called jart, which is a sort of
> suped up wordpad. I can't find any options anywhere in orca's settings,
> not even in text formatting. Would it be possible to add this
> functionality, if it's not already there? I myself would find it useful,
> but it's not so critical I'm going to die if I don't get it. Joanie, I
> can't remember if you answered the email I sent last time I asked for
> this but if you did, would you mind refreshing me on what you said? I
> don't want to pull the same thing I did when asking for orca to speak
> multimedia keys in learn mode again. If this were added it should of
> course be configurable, I'm just not sure where it would fit best? Text
> formatting options? Voice or speech options? I don't know if there's a
> universal way of detecting page numbering in most applications, but
> libreoffice should support this, and other text editors like pluma and
> gedit might.
> What do the rest of you guys think, is adding page numbering a good idea?
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
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