Re: [orca-list] Reworked presentation of native word navigation

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Milton.

The change I made should only impact what happens when you press
Ctrl+Right and Ctrl+Left. Did my change break something regarding
Up/Down Arrow?

Thanks for testing!
--joanie

On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 20:07 +0100, Milton wrote:
> Hi Joanie,
>
>
> I discribe 2 cases below but if it is not what your change is about, 
> just forget this mail.
>
>
> 👍 😉
>
> Case 1
> Ubuntu 20.04 in dutch
> With Orca master and espeak set punctuation to 'All'.
> Start Gedit or Pluma.
> type the signs 'Left brace' and 'Right brace' divided by a space.
> { }
> With Ctrl+Left/Right
> Orca says correct 'Linker accolade' and 'rechter accolade'. Also 
> Arrow-Left/Right speaks correctly.
>
> But with Arrow Up/Down to read by line Orca says 'vierkante haak' 
> 'vierkante haak sluiten'. Those are the Dutch names for 'Left
> bracket' 
> and 'Right bracket'.
>
> Case 2
> Ubuntu 20.04 in Dutch
> With Orca master and espeak set punctuation to 'All'.
> Start Gedit or Pluma.
> type the signs 'Left bracket' and 'Right bracket' divided by a space.
> [ ]
> With Ctrl+Left/Right
> and also Arrow-Left/Right, Orca says 'linker haakje' and 'rechter
> haakje'.
> Those are the Dutch names for 'Left parenthesis' and 'Right
> parenthesis'.
> But with Arrow Up/Down to read by line, Orca says correctly 'Left 
> bracket 'Right bracket', however not the Dutch words 'Vierkante haak'
> , 
> 'Vierkante haak sluiten'.
>
>
> Op 29-10-2020 om 17:16 schreef Joanmarie Diggs:
> > Hey all.
> >
> > I just landed a change in Orca master which is designed to improve
> > what
> > Orca says when you use native app navigation by word. In other
> > words,
> > when you press Ctrl+Left/Right *and* Orca is not controlling the
> > caret.
> > So that means Gedit/Pluma, Firefox and Chromium in focus mode, etc.
> > The
> > changes should not impact browse mode nor LibreOffice.
> >
> > The problem I was/am trying to address is what happens when you're
> > navigating by word around punctuation and other symbols. In those
> > instances, where the app moves you when you press Ctrl+Left/Right
> > doesn't match what ATK/AT-SPI2 reports for the word at your new
> > location. This mismatch can cause Orca to repeat some parts of the
> > "word" or not speak other parts. Hopefully that's better now in
> > Orca
> > master.
> >
> > Please give it a spin and let me know what you think.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --joanie
> >
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