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

[ted <orangegrovebear gmail com>]

I wish there was a key binding for key echo off too. I like, almost need the key echo when I'm writing in edit fields 
and so on, but I absolutely have to turn it of when using the browser structural navigation because hearing 
"H" for moving to new headings is too distracting. The workaround is to set key echo off for Firefox, but 
have a binding set for cycling through the key echo options. Then when you want key echo off, you switch to a different 
workspace and back with control, alt right/left, and the settings switch back to key echo off. It's slightly tedious, 
but nowhere as tedious as cycling through all the key echo options.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:55 PM Kyle via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
wrote:

> Similar to the verbose verbosity level, key echo is on by default for
> new users. I'm OK with that, although I would prefer a toggle key that
> is bound by default, also similar to the verbosity level toggle. So
> those of us who have used it for a long time and turn it off right from
> the start can just press a single key combination to toggle it off
> instead of having to go into the preferences and turn it off under the
> key echo tab. That said, I can also see the merrits of the argument
> that we're already going into preferences the first time we start Orca
> on a new system, so there is no need to change anything.
> ~Kyle