Re: [orca-list] When there is selected text and the cursor is moved with the arrows, the orca does not read the text to which the cursor was moved

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Hi,

In LibreOffice Writer Orca speaks as expected: Orca says 'line is 
unselected' and then it speaks the next line.

Milton

Op 02-12-2021 om 14:20 schreef Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list:
> Just tested this in Gmail's quick reply textbox and the body field of
> Gmail's full composer using Firefox and Gmail's basic HTML view with
> Orca 41.0 sourced from Debian Testing.
>
> Best I can tell, hitting an arrow key with selected text unselects the
> text without actually moving the cursor.
>
> Or to be more exact:
>
> Selecting the line then pressing down or right unselects the line,
> says nothing after unselected, and puts the cursor at the end of the
> line.
> Selecting the line and pressing up or left unselects the line and put
> the cursor at the beginning of the line. If the line was selected from
> the end, nothing is said after unselected, but if selected from the
> beginning, Orca will either read the first character of the unselected
> line(if unselected with left arrow) or the whole line(if unslected
> with up arrow).
>
> In all cases, moving to the next or previous line when the current
> line is selected requires a double tap or down/up arrow, once to
> unselect, the second to actually move the cursor.
>
> I'm not running a full desktop as Firefox is the only GUI application
> I use, so I can't test if this once to unselect, twice to move
> behavior is specific to Firefox, but it raises the question of where
> the cursor ends up immediately after the unselect and might indicate
> the problem isn't exclusive to Orca Master if it is indeed an Orca
> issue.
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