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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I strongly believe that I should always get some feed back from my 
screen reader, so I would go with option B.


On 3/20/20 12:22 PM, Keith Barrett wrote:
> 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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