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

[Andy Borka <sonfire11 gmail com>]

Hi,

Orca should do what I tell it, no matter where the content is located. I do believe Orca should indicate something is on a line with all punctuation or whitespace, or any combination of punctuation and whitespace. Orca should also let me tell it what characters/symbols to speak at what punctuation level where all is the obvious exception. Just because I write source code, doesn't mean I have to listen to punctuation that might not matter in source code.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:05 PM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> 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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