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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I'll see about doing a follow-up change to either be smarter about when
to make the announcement, make it configurable, or something else.

If, hypothetically, the only change I made was to move it to the end of
the announcement rather than the beginning, would that be fine or still
annoying?

--joanie

On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 20:18 +0000, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list
wrote:
> 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?
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