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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Sorry for the multiple replies. In addition to the question I ask
below, is it *just* the row and column numbers that bother you? Or is
it also the row and column headers?

--joanie

On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 10:02 +0200, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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