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



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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