Re: [orca-list] Should Orca ignore your punctuation settings when the only thing on the line is punctuation?

[Keith Barrett <lists barrettpianos co uk>]

Hello Joanie,

Funny you should mention this now, I recently came unstuck because of 
this very issue.

I had been working on a long document in writer which I had been doing a 
lot of fiddling with.  I had managed to leave some punctuation on blank 
lines which I had meant to remove but arrowing down meant I missed it 
because I usually turn off punctuation settings.

Now, on the other hand, I might not want to hear about punctuation in 
browse mode on a web page so, could there be a different outcome in 
browse mode but in an editable area, I would really have like to know 
that the punctuation was there.

Keith



On 20/03/2020 17:05, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> What should Orca do when you up/down arrow to a line which consists only 
> of punctuation, or of punctuation with whitespace?
>
> a. Respect your punctuation setting, even if that means Orca might stay
>     silent when you arrow to that line, OR
> b. Ignore your punctuation setting, because Orca should say something,
>     and if we just give the symbol to the speech synthesizer as-is, the
>     speech synthesizer might not say it.
>
> Right now Orca is doing option a, assuming that it should always respect 
> your setting because you know best about your preferences, and you can 
> always use left/right or flat review the characters.
>
> But periodically I find it weird that there is silence when one arrows 
> to a line that consists only of punctuation, or of punctuation and 
> whitespace. So I'm wondering if b would be a better option.
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts. Thanks!
> --joanie
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