Re: [orca-list] Disable Row/Column announcements.

[Jérémy Prego <jeremy pregonetwork net>]

Hello,

This behavior bothers me too. I couldn't find a way to turn it off...

I also have the behavior in emails, and it's disturbing on poorly 
designed tables

I was going to email about this, but you beat me to it :)

Le 04/07/2022 à 22:18, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list a écrit :
> Okay, so I recently grabbed the Orca 43 alpha from Debian Experimental
> along with the latest version of at-spi-core.
>
> For the most part, things are going well, but there's one new behavior
> that's driving me a bit crazy, namely that as I tab around webpages
> with tables, Orca is constantly announcing the row and column numbers
> as I move between table cells, and it announces these before reading
> the contents, breaking the work flow I'm used to on these
> websites(Gmail's basic HTML view is hit particularly hard).
>
> I'd search for a option in Orca's preferences to turn this off, but
> for some reason, orca+spacebar doesn't bring up Orca's preferences,
> and I'm not sure why it isn't working, though it's been this way for
> quite some time and I suspect it has more to do with how I'm using an
> extremely stripped down xserver and a launch script written by someone
> else to launch Firefox+orca without launching a full Desktop than
> anything dealing with Orca directly...
>
> Anyways, is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle this function or
> anything I can edit in ~/.local/share/orca to disable it?
> _______________________________________________
> 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