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

[Nimer Jaber <nimerjaber1 gmail com>]

I am personally for option A. I don't think the screen reader should second-guess what the user intended by setting their punctuation settings they way they wanted them in the first place. It seems as if I am in the minority here, but definitely prefer option A. If I wanted punctuation spoken, in any context, I can easily enable it.

Thanks.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:05 AM 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
_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html

--

Best,

Nimer Jaber

The message above is intended for the recipient to whom it was
addressed. If you believe that you are not the intended recipient,
please notify me via reply email and destroy all copies of this
correspondence. Action taken as a result of this email or its contents
by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) may result in civil or
criminal charges. I have checked this email and all corresponding
attachments for security threats. However, security of your machine is
up to you. Thanks.

Registered Linux User 529141.
http://counter.li.org/

To find out about a free and versatile screen reader for windows XP
and above, please click here:
http://www.nvda-project.org

You can follow @nimerjaber on Twitter for the latest technology news.

To contact me, you can reply to this email or you may call me at (970) (393-4481) and I will do my best to respond to you promptly. Thank
you, and have a great day!