Re: [orca-list] Navigating through LibreOffice comments

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi,

just in case you didn't comme across that yet, with LibreOffice focused open the Orca help then press F3 to 
hear the specific Orca key bindings for libre Office.

Best,

Didier

On 10/10/2019 18:01, Paul Martz via orca-list wrote:
> Hi all. New list member here. As Microsoft is forcing me off Windows 7, I've decided to move to Debian 10 
> with the Mate desktop. One thing I need to do is review LibreOffice Writer documents with comments. (Track 
> changes, too, but let's keep this topic focused on comments.)
>
> What I need to do is move quickly between the text comment anchor point and the comment itself.
>
> I've found I can move between comments with control + alt + PageUp and PageDown. If I'm in the document text, 
> these commands move between comment anchor points. If focus is in a comment, these commands move between the 
> comments themselves. And if focus is in a comment, then Escape moves focus back to the comment text anchor 
> point. But I haven't yet found a way to move from an anchor point to its corresponding comment.
>
> I thought the LibreOffice Navigator would let me do this, but there appear to be some issues with Orca and 
> the Navigator window. For example, if I open Navigator with F5, expand the comments, and arrow through them, 
> Orca reads the comment text inconsistently. Also, with focus on a comment in the Navigator window, the 
> context menu key doesn't function as expected - that is, it's not the context menu associated with the 
> comment, as if Orca thinks some other object has focus. Finally, double-clicking on the Navigator comment 
> text (with KP+Divide twice quickly) doesn't take me to the comment either.
>
> LibreOffice claims to be fully accessible, but keyboard shortcuts are mostly absent from their documentation. 
> For an Orca newbie like myself, reading about clicking and dragging and dropping in the LibreOffice 
> documentation is frustrating. I have extensive technical writing experience and would be glad to improve the 
> documentation, but need to learn it first. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
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