Howdy Joanie, I managed to find a temporary solution. Airsonic offers keyboard shortcuts, but you have to enable them in settings. Now I can use - and + to adjust the volume. After reading your reply, I went back and tried the arrow keys again. Orca does go into focus mode when I tab to the slider, but left and right arrow keys do not change it, instead, the focus switches to a different control. For example, if I press left to decrease the volume, it shifts to the Mute button. Of course with the keyboard shortcuts enabled, it also goes to the previous song. Thanks, Storm On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:34:16PM +0200, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
I just brought up the demo on https://airsonic.github.io/airsonic-ui/ and tried it without actually playing anything. I used Tab to give focus to each slider. Orca automatically switched to focus mode. Then I used left and right to change the value. Each time the value changed and Orca announced it. I'm not sure why that's not working for you since it seems to be amongst the things you tried. Regarding sliders working like comboboxes, in my mind they don't for a couple of reasons: Comboboxes are expandable/collapsable. Depending on the browser and operating system, Alt+Down can expand a combobox so all (or at least more of) the items are visible. Down Arrow may or may not expand it, but even if it doesn't, it should cause the next item in the combobox to become selected. Sliders, on the other hand, are not expandable/collapsable. Thus I wouldn't expect Alt+Down to do anything. I would expect Down to do something in the case of a vertical slider. But I'll come back to that. Comboboxes (that are populated) contain a list of items, similar to a menu. And those items can be anything. Sliders, on the other hand, typically represent a range of numeric values. In terms of how they are represented to the user, the values may stay numeric or they may be converted to more understandable words (none, very low, low, medium, high, very high). In terms of visual appearance, a slider is often a narrow bar with some sort of value indicator which can be moved along the bar. When Orca knows the orientation of the slider and announces it (e.g. horizontal slider) it's telling you about the bar. Thus for a horizontal slider, I would expect left and right to be the keystrokes which would move me along the bar; for a vertical slider, I would expect up and down to be the keystrokes which would work. But the keystrokes are based on what the author did (or failed to do). Again, based on my experience, the author did the right thing here. So let's see if we can figure out why it's not working in your case. --joanie On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 21:24 -0400, Storm Dragon wrote:Howdy, I just discovered an awesome piece of software, airsonic. In the web player, there are time and volume controls that are both called horizontal sliders. I figured they would work like comboboxes, but they don't seem to follow the same rules. I tried using alt+down to activate them, and nothing. In focus mode, if I use up and down nothing happens, same for left and right, except the focus actually moves off of the slider. I am using Orca with Chromium. Is there a different way I should be accessing these sliders? orca-git 3.37.2.r71.gbb7e95a18 chromium 83.0.4103.116 Thanks, Storm _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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