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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Yet another update: Cell contents are also now announced when the cells
become selected/unselected. That leaves whereAmI and presenting the
selected cells when the command to read the selected text is used.
--joanie

On 07/03/2018 02:47 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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