Re: [orca-list] How can I force Orca into focus mode?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Generally it's roles for items which are expected to have their own 
navigation and which Orca's caret navigation and/or structural 
navigation doesn't make sense. So:

* Combo boxes
* Entry and password fields
* List boxes
* Menus and menu items and their descendants
* Page tabs
* Progress bars and sliders
* Spin buttons
* Tool bars
* Trees, tree tables, and their items

Due to custom authoring, if it's editable or expandable, it's assumed to 
be a focus mode widget regardless of role. Ditto for buttons which have 
a popup.

Similarly, there are a handful of roles (embedded, list item, table 
cell, and table) where Orca has heuristics to try to determine if 
something is a text item or a widget.

Given that you mentioned canvas, I'm wondering if it's falling into the 
last hole.

Now your turn: What's your specific use case? Maybe Orca's doing 
something wrong, but without information from you I can't tell. :)

--joanie

On 1/3/20 14:53, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't clear.
>
>
> As a web developer, I'm curious what heuristic Orca uses to decide to 
> auto-switch to focus mode. It wouldn't be a good idea to generalize all 
> the way to focusing on a canvas, but maybe there's a role or trick I can 
> use to hint to Orca that it should stop intercepting keys when focus 
> lands within a certain element. Right now, manual toggling works. I'm 
> just wondering if I can automate it.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 1/3/20 7:48 AM, Matt Dizak wrote:
> > Yep, Special Key + A
> >
> > So if you're on the desktop keyboard layout, it's the NumPad Ins key +
> > A to toggle between browser and focus mode.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > On 1/3/20, Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info> wrote:
> > > Aside from landing on a form control, is there any way? Experimenting
> > > with building HTML 5 games, and having Orca trigger focus mode on my
> > > game canvas would be a nice quality-of-life improvement. Is there a role
> > > or other hint I can use to achieve this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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