Re: [orca-list] List item counts sometimes spoken when list item preference is turned off



Hi Mewtamer.

I can reproduce the specific problem you mention in Firefox's preferences. Not sure yet if it's an Orca bug or a Firefox bug. But will look into it and fix it if it's in Orca; file it otherwise.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 2/18/20 23:32, Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
I don't use Thunderbird and I don't even know what Blueberry is, and
I'm running Orca 1.34.2-1 from Debian Testing/Unstable instead of
anything from Git, so my data point might already be invalidated by a
fix that hasn't reached me yet, but I've encountered a similar issue
in Firefox-ESR 68.5.0 that's persisted for the last several updates of
both Firefox and Orca. Admittedly, depending on how closely Firefox
and Thunderbird's code bases are intermingled, it might be the same
bug that was causing the problem with Thunderbird, but here are the
details.

On the privacy and security page of Firefox's preferences, when I
activate the manage data button to clean out all the useless cookies
websites like to set just for visiting, Orca gives an item count for
the list of domains that have set cookies, but as I remove the junk,
the count almost never goes down and I have to save changes and open
the manage data dialog again if I want to know how many cookies I
chose to keep.

Never really bothered me, but if it can help resolve an issue others
are having, I'm happy to provide the data point.

On 2/18/20, Kyle via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
Joanmarie Diggs aliandika:
So... The first thing is that the checkboxes for what to present
during navigation are meant for document content; not GUIs. Granted,
that's not especially obvious from the checkbox name. And what it's
meant to do is prevent complete announcement of the item itself. In
other words, it's not "don't say the list count"; it's "don't mention
the list at all." So if we want the role (e.g. list or listbox) but
not the count, that would be a different preference I think.

One option is to add yet another new preference (not my personal
choice because we already have a ton of preferences). Another is to
not present the number of children when the verbosity level is set to
brief. I just committed the latter to master. I hope that it addresses
your concerns.

Perfect. Thanks for clearing that up. It's working exactly as I expected
now. I set my verbosity to brief as soon as I can whenever setting up
any system or user account for the first time for myself, and leave it
at verbose by default on new systems I install for others. So this
behavior works out perfectly, as all these little things are controlled
with a single preference instead of having to tturn everything off
individually or leave it all on. The only thing that may work better is
a verbosity tab that would have all the checkboxes for document
presentation, child position, number of children, etc, just to
consolidate some of the document presentation stuff and other
preferences related to speaking of various elements and counts in one
single place. But the current behavior works great, at least for me.


Lastly, if memory serves me, the Thunderbird three item count was a
Thunderbird bug. I cannot reproduce it in Thunderbird Daily. And for
Blueberry, Orca reports the correct item count for me so I'm not sure
what's going on with your system.

Thanks for taking a look at that stuff. That explains the Thunderbird
issue, as I run the version that is in the ArchLinuxARM repository.
Although this was just updated yesterday, it is still version 68.5, so
it may not have that bug fixed. Regarding blueberry, I can't figure what
may be going on either, as I usually see less devices in the list than
the number that is reported. Currently, I see 10 items in the list, and
Orca is reporting 10 items. However, I usually have the same 10 items,
but Orca most of the time reports anywhere between 11 and 14 items. The
reported number of items sometimes increases each time I open blueberry,
though this doesn't always occur. In any case, I almost always see the
same number of items in the list, regardless of what is reported by
Orca. So I really can't figure what is happening, unless phantom devices
are appearing in the list, but are maybe greyed out or similar, and for
whatever reason, I can't see those devices, though Orca reports them as
list items. Thanks again for trying to help me sort this out.

~Kyle

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