Hi,
There are definitely times when reviewing the screen is necessary. I therefore propose that the user can switch between reviewing the current object, and reviewing the screen. My suggestion is that the user can toggle between these two review modes with the key currently used for entering flat review, as flat review is automatically entered when a review key is pressed.
Regards,
Rynhardt
When I'm trying to review the screen using flat review, most of the time
it is because I need to find a certain spot and simulate a mouse click
or I need to spell a word where my caret is, usually when browsing, but
also when I find a button, an element in a drop-down box or another
similar item that I need to be able to spell. I tend to care more about
what is on the screen in the current window at this point than what is
in the current object. I rather like the idea of "current" keys not
using flat review unless flat review is toggled on either by using flat
review navigation or by explicitly toggling flat review on. But a whole
new layer of complexity that is object navigation must be available only
to users who know what they are doing and explicitly want this behavior.
The last time I needed NVDA for anything, I found it fairly easy to use
overall, but there were two things about it that made me want to throw
my computer out the window. Those two things were the browsing virtual
buffer and the rather convoluted hierarchical object navigation that is
nothing at all like what someone looking at the screen would see, and
caused me much pain just trying to get around my screen in places where
tab focus and other keyboard focus things didn't work as well as they
could have. Is flat review perfect? by no means. But the behavior and
performance of flat review must be improved wherever possible. It must
not be shoved aside for something as esoteric to the end user as object
navigation.
~Kyle
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