Re: [orca-list] orca, google-chrome-unstable and google docs

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Peter.

Based on your description, you have screen reader support enabled but
not google docs' braille support. As a result, google docs is telling
Orca everything it should speak via live regions. This includes what
happens when you arrow left/right.

If you want Orca to work in google docs like it does with other
editors, you should enable braille support in google docs (under the
google docs tools menu... accessibility settings).

Also be sure you are in focus mode -- ideally sticky focus mode -- in
Orca. That will cause Orca to not treat your keypresses as Orca
commands and let the google docs commands to work as they would without
Orca running.

Hope this helps!
--joanie

On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 22:11 +1000, peter rayner via orca-list wrote:
> I'm having fun navigating google docs with orca. In particular
> character by character motion (left and right arrow) seems to always
> read the character I've
> just left so deleting doesn't do what I expect. I have screen reader
> support toggled on and I call it (via a wrapper as)
> /opt/google/chrome-unstable/chrome --force-renderer-accessibility --
> enable-caret-browsing docs.google.com
> This is with google-chrome-unstable 85.0.4181.8-1 and orca pretty
> close to the head of master.
>
> -- I also have a bit  of trouble getting into a document from the
> site
> but I presume that's just learning my way 'round.
> Any thoughts on the navigation most welcome.
> regards
> Peter
>
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