Re: [orca-list] could the flat review changes be extended to the desktop?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell.

Are you accessing these items via flat review?

--joanie

On 2016-08-31 19:15, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> The subject line is a little vague because I'm not exactly sure how to
> describe what's going on. The best way I can is by describing the mate
> panel. If you're on a laptop and your battery is discharging, the mate
> panel will show a label on it's power icon that looks like "laptop
> battery 2 hours and 30 minutes left (76 percent).
>
> Orca will read this same label until the battery dies completely unless
> you restart orca. At which point it gets the new updated label. This is
> true for every icon on the panel that displays a label that changes.
> Battery power, weather, even the sound volume.
>
> That brings to mind another thing I've noticed. The sound volume by
> default reads as "sound output volume" and nothing else. You have to
> press control+f1  to get the volume. This isn't a complaint, just
> wondering if orca could read that without control+f1 needing to be
> pressed? I suppose this might need to be configurable because if it read
> it by default someone is going to come along and say it's too verbose
> and so on, and I'm not even sure this is an orca bug. I *think* it is
> but I'm not positive.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
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