Re: [orca-list] Newbie question

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi again Andrew.

I just went to add the hackaround I mentioned in my other response and
discovered that I'm already working around this. It could be worked
around better because Orca is falling back on the description when there
is no name, but then also presenting the description. Thus you get
something like "Home push button Home." I'll fix that. But given that
I'm already working around the issue you describe, I have a couple of
questions:

1. What version of Orca are you using? (Current stable is 3.20.0)
2. Could you provide me explicit steps to navigate to one of the
   controls which demonstrates this issue? (I don't use Eclipse,
   so please be very explicit in your steps)

--joanie

On 03/26/2016 10:52 AM, Andrew Hart wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've recently set up a Vinux distribution based on Ubuntu 1.4 and the
> Unity desktop in a virtual machine and am using Orca for the first time.
>  I have a question about Orca behaviour which is really annoying me and
> which makes working in Linux kind of inefficient for me at this early stage.
>
> While I'm tabbing around the Eclipse UI, Orca
> is giving me three pieces of info about every control I focus on:
> 1.  what the control is
> 2.  what keys I can use to interact with it (tutorial assistance)
> 3. and finally the name/title/contents of the control.
>
> Having all three bits of info is great at the mo while I'm trying to
> accustom myself to Unity and Linux, but it's a real drag having the most
> important bit of info spoken last.  Is there a way I can get Orca to
> announce the name/title/contents of the UI element with focus before its
> type and tutorial assistance?  This would make navigating around and
> learning new applications much quicker and more pleasant.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
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