Re: [orca-list] Update on (work-in-progress) presentation of selection changes in Calc

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Another update: In addition to presenting when when or more rows and/or
columns gets selected, Orca will announce the coordinates when one or
more cells gets selected. It does not yet announce the cell contents.
I'll add that next. Also on the to-do list is reading the selected cell
content in whereAmI and when the (unbound) command to read the selected
text is used. In the meantime, testing and feedback is encouraged.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 07/02/2018 06:20 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> Having Orca present selection changes in Calc is now something I'm
> actively working on. I just committed a change to present when entire
> rows and or columns get selected or unselected. Mind you, this
> functionality assumes that Calc tells us. It doesn't always. Here's one
> instance which I can reproduce reliably:
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118508. It needs to
> be fixed in LibreOffice; not Orca.
>
> I'm also noticing that during selection, the accessible object for the
> cell you're in sometimes becomes a zombie. So if you cancel selection,
> Orca might give you more details about the table than you'd like.
> LibreOffice/Calc should not be destroying objects on us like that. I
> still need to come up with a reliable test case. When I do, I'll file
> that one as well against LibreOffice.
>
> I have also made progress on -- but not yet committed -- presenting
> simple selection changes. There are some associated performance issues
> I'm still working on to get this right. With any luck, I'll finish that
> tomorrow and commit it.
>
> Stay tuned!
> --joanie
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