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

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Thanks, back in business!

On 2/17/20 12:31 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> I just committed a change to fix the regression which was causing the 
> navbar links to not all be presented on the same line.
>
> Orca is still treating the initial Bootstrap icon is if it's not on 
> that same line, and I'll try to tweak that next. But the biggest issue 
> should be solved.
>
> Please pull master and let me know. Thanks!
> --joanie
>
> On 2/17/20 19:19, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > 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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