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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Jeffery, all.

Understood regarding the need to be clear about what happened (selected
text is no longer selected). While I'm not jazzed by my "selection
removed," I'm not jazzed by your list of alternatives. Clear wording is
hard. :) Let's see what others chime in with.

Regarding pressing home to unselect to the start of the line, but leave
the rest of the stuff selected, that behavior should hopefully be
unchanged for two reasons:

1. This logic only kicks in when there is no longer any selected text.
In your example, there still would be selected text.

2. This logic only kicks in when the unselection happened due to
something other than Shift+Caret Nav commands. To unselect just to the
start of the current line, you would have to press Shift+Home; not just
Home.

Hope this makes sense. And if not, please pull master and try it in
Gedit and let me know what you find.

Thanks!
--joanie

On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 14:26 +0000, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list
wrote:
> Part of me says selection removed sounds like a synonym forselection
> deleted. Perhaps something like selection cancelled, unselected all,
> everything unselected, or selectionn unhighlighted or permutations
> thereof would be more intuitive to new users and less likely to cause
> panic that they accidentally deleted a significant portion of their
> document.
>
> I do agree that reading what was unselected is needlessly wordy when
> cancelling a selection altogether, but I also think the unselected
> text probably should be read when unselecting part of a
> selection(e.g.
> someone holds shift and presses down arrow several times to highlight
> several lines, but gets part of the line beyond where they wanted to
> stop, so press home to unselect to the start of that last line,
> hearing what was unselected sounds useful to avoid unselecting too
> much, such if the point you want to end the selection is a sentence
> break in that last line rather than a line break).
>
> Just my two bits.
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