Re: [orca-list] Interesting spatial changes in web layout rendering

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Actually this is not due to any of the issues Alex filed. I will have a 
fix soon. Thanks.
--joanie

On 2/17/20 19:07, Alex ARNAUD via orca-list wrote:
> Le 17/02/2020 à 18:33, Nolan Darilek a écrit :
> >  Hey folks,
> Hello Nolan,
>
> > I see from some recent Orca commit messages that there may be changes 
> > in whether given web elements render on the same line or not.
> It's due to some issues I've reported.
>
> > I upgraded Orca last week, and found that a number of pages/apps now 
> > render differently. In particular, Bootstrap menus which I've long 
> > assumed are horizontal, now appear vertical. See the navbars on this 
> > page, for instance:
> >
> >
> > https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/components/navbar/
> I confirm what you describe and I confirm you that the menu is horizontal.
>
> I see multiple issues here:
> 1. Orca doesn't announce the list on the menu of bootstrap whereas the l 
> shortcut jumps to the list
> 2. Orca reads now vertically the menu. The main reason here is to let it 
> announce when you come / leave the list. For that Orca needs to put the 
> caret into the list.
> (Probably Orca could announce all the horizontal list at the same time, 
> this will reduce for you the amount of arrow you've to do)
>
> Do you know how NVDA handles such case?
>
> Best regards.
>
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