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

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

I may be wrong, but at least for me the orca's current behavior is correct.

In the editors that I use to edit programming code I turn the 
punctuation to all because I need to hear all the punctuation in the code.


On 3/20/20 2:05 PM, 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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