Re: [orca-list] three features that would be nice to have

[Devin Prater <r d t prater gmail com>]

They sound pretty standard in a screen reader feature set to me. I like the ideas, in short.

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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:02 PM -0800, "kendell clark" <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:

hi all
I'm writing in to request, eventually, three features that I'd like to
see in orca. Two of these already exist in orca natively, one might need
to be added. The first is a default keybinding set for orca's list of
notification messages. I often set this to orca+n, but of course this is
just me. It's incredibly useful to be able to review the notifications
I've gotten from anywhere.

The second is a keyboard shortcut to read the clipboard. Orca can't do
this natively, but chrys has made a plugin, and an
orca-customizations.py file to do this. I don't know if the plugin
support will make it for gnome 3.20, and gnome is in freeze anyway, but
could this possibly make it into orca master at some point? My
suggestion would be orca+c, but again, I'm open to suggestions or
leaving it unbound if that's what everyone wants.

The third is battery status. I think this has been brought up on hear a
few times, and I'm not sure if this is easy or not. How would this work?
Would orca query acpi, if supported, and apm, if not? apm is acpi's
predecessor  and hasn't been on computers in over a decade. I'd suggest
orca+b for this, or maybe orca+shift+b, but that's just me. I hope I'm
not being a pest, especially to joanie since I've already asked her to
murge one thing. These features would be nice but I don't think they're
critical, but I wanted to get the request out there whenever she has time.

A fourth would be a keystroke to query the system volume, but I'll limit
myself to three feature requests at a time, lol. Should I file an rfe
against orca, just to get the request in the bugzilla system? What does
everyone else think? Are these features a good idea?
Thanks
Kendell Clark

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