Re: [orca-list] Anyone figured out Discord under Orca?

[Rastislav Kish <rastislav kish gmail com>]

Hello,

one my friend told me, that a lot of blind people moved from Skype to 
Discord recently, and as he did as well, I decided to make an account 
too to stay in contact with him and as a plus discover the place a bit, 
as there could be quite interesting communities.


I personally found their app completely inaccessible, I didn't even find 
that they're using Electron. :)

The only thing I noticed was my computer fan preparing to start up a 
flight, so I have removed the thing as soon as I verified, that it's 
completely unusable.

The web is another story. There are few annoying places, like the date 
picker on the registration site, it took me quite a lot of time to trick 
it just to realize, that I entered wrong numbers there (of course after 
submitting the form). XD


But other than that, it seems quite accessible to me. Although all I did 
yet was sending few direct messages and exploring the settings, so this 
may very well be a premature assumption.


As for the unability to type in edit field, this of course may not 
necessarily need to be your case, but I found out, that Orca has quite 
hard times when dealing with overlapping objects. The problem is, that 
it displays both areas without any indices, that they're overlapping. 
The only thing as a consequence is, that overlapped elements act 
strangely i.e. it's not possible to activate them or write to them.

A typical case where this happened to me was, when I wanted to send my 
friend a friend request. The field was actually there, but it was 
overlapped by dialog encouraging me to create my first discord server. 
Which however was on the top of the site, whereas the field was near the 
bottom, so I didn't notice it at all, until I noticed that writing 
doesn't work and started searching why. I needed to close the dialog 
with according button, after that, the field worked again.


As for the prefixes and suffixes in chat field, yes, it happens to me 
too. It's best to press ctrl+A and start writing, that worked for me 
even if backspace didn't.

The responsivity of the field varies with every launch, sometimes it's 
quite accessible and I can do even more complicated operations in it, 
sometimes navigation is completely without feedback as well as deletion, 
so I have to type the whole message at once. This is not a Discord 
specific issue, a very similar behavior can be seen in Facebook's web 
Messenger or Skype's web app. I don't know whose fault it is, as 
Messenger for example doesn't work correctly even on Windows when it 
comes to this edit field and Skype was also successful in doing strange 
things in recent releases, although the problems werre possibly lowered 
as Freedom scientific takes special care of the Skype app.


And as for switching between browsing and focus mode, well, it may be 
just me, but I feel like Orca does this all the time, on all pages. :)

Like.. yes, it sometimes announces the change, but many times I end up 
surprised, why I can't move just to find out, that I'm in focus mode.


I don't like auto modes switching, it would be best, if it was possible 
to completely turn this off. But as for now, yes, it happens quite 
suddenly, sometimes without an information, not just on Discord.


Best regards


Rastislav