Re: [orca-list] Orca should report locations of web elements

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Andy.

I started working on this, but have some questions. First one is what
should Orca say? Would "x pixels from left edge. y pixels from top edge.
Width: 123. Height: 456" work? Or did you have something else in mind?

Another issue that occurs to me is that if you have scrolled the page
content, you might get a value other than what you expect. In other
words, if you press Page Down, on a long page and then ask for the
coordinates, you're going to get a different value than if you pressed
Ctrl+Home on that same page and then asked for the coordinates. Is it
the end user's responsibility to know how the page is scrolled and take
that into account when getting the numbers from Orca?

Thanks!
--joanie

On 10/16/18 3:22 PM, Andy Borka via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> It is critical that a web developer know where he or she places html
> elements on a page. Therefore, I am requesting a feature that can tell
> me the pixel coordinates of a particular element such as text, a link,
> headings, paragraphs, lists/list items, and so on. It would also be nice
> if Orca can tell me the physical size of each element in pixels. What do
> you think?
>
> JAWS/NVDA already does this, so I know it is possible.
>
>
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