Re: [orca-list] Why is key echo on by default?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

I think keeping key echo on as a default is an excellent idea for another 
reason.  Even those of us who learned to touch type are not perfect 
typists and it helps to hear when we make a mistake so the backspace 
and/or other correcting keys like control-u to wipe out a whole line can 
be used in time.  Just because we're blind our typing and writing doesn't 
necessarily have to look like that at least for the braille readers.



On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

> Hi Jace.
>
> A user who needs key echo enabled (i.e. because they are not totally
> familiar with the layout of their keyboard) might not be able to enable
> it themselves in Orca preferences if they do not know what keys they
> are pressing as they attempt to get into Orca preferences.
>
> As someone who can touch type, and also happens to be sighted, that
> setting is the very first thing I turn off in a new set up because it
> annoys me. But I don't think it would be a good, upstream default to
> change key echo to off by default.
>
> That said, I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)
>
> --joanie
>
> On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 15:56 +0100, Jace Kattalakis via orca-list wrote:
> > Something I'm wondering about with regard to Orca and default
> > settings,
> > and it's come up in a few podcasts/recordings I've used to install
> > tricky stuff.
> >
> > Why is key echo on by default, is that down to the indivdual distro
> > or
> > is that a part of having Orca that in order to have Orca in your
> > distro's live image/repos, here's the default settings you need? I
> > turn
> > key echo off the instant I load Orca on a live session, and playing
> > around with VMs got me wondering on why key echo is always on by
> > default
> > and if there's anything I can do on an iso image to leave it off by
> > default since it gets insanely spammy, insanely quickly, I've had
> > times
> > where it's left control left alt then won't hush.
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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