Re: [orca-list] RFC: reporting spread sheet selection changes

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

I would not like Orca to speak the content of the selected cells because 
sometimes I have to select a huge number of cells, sometimes rows or 
columns.


Op 12-07-18 om 03:33 schreef sonfire11--- via orca-list:
> It doesn't need to say all selected text, just the text of the last cell
> currently in the selected range. For example, if you have A1 name, B1 ID
> number, C1 Phone number, Orca should say something like the following, which
> is a speech history transcript of a simple example in Excel. Note that A1 is
> not announced as selected because it is assumed selected since the cursor is
> in that cell.
> Name A1
> Select ID Number B1
> Select Phone Number C1
>
> It is ok to have the user press another shortcut key to get the entire
> selected range, as the JAWS/Excel transcript shows below.
> selected range A1 Name, C1 Phone Number
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>
> Making Orca say the entire range of selected cells plus all selected text
> would make Orca entirely too chatty. Pressing a couple of keys once the
> information is needed is not a bad thing. Anything else is information
> overload and just leads to more confusion. Tl;dr, speech is not a fast
> interface, and anything to make it less slow is the obvious better choice.
>
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