Re: [orca-list] Announcements / live regions

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Can you capture a full debug.out demonstrating the problem? I'd like to know if Orca is truly jumping to the last one (discarding previous ones), or if speech is getting interrupted (previous ones are sent to be spoken, but a new one comes in too quickly).

--joanie

On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 18:03 -1200, Vadim Peretokin wrote:

Hi Joanmarie,

Is it possible to have the notifications queue one after another? When a lot of lines are coming in really quickly, they all still need to be read out in full, but Orca is jumping to the last one.

To be fair, macOS's VoiceOver has the same problem, and we've had to resort to using a custom TTS to read the announcements out due to this*. I wouldn't mind re-using the same solution for Linux as well.

Windows' UiaRaiseNotificationEvent is nice in this regard and allows you to configure the processing behaviour on a per-notification basis.

Any tips are appreciated, thanks!
Vadim

* VO on iOS raises an event when it is done reading a notification, making it possible to hand-hold it and only feed new announcements once it is done announcing. VO on macOS for some reason does not give any such prompts.