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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Jeffery.

I plan to give things another day before rolling the 42.3 apology
release. (I don't want to do it, only to have to do a 42.4 did-I-
mention-I-am-sorry follow-up the next day. *smiles*)

--joanie

On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 14:29 +0000, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list
wrote:
> Okay, the change being added in Orca 42.2 explains why the problem
> wasn't fixed by downgrading on my end. I didn't realize Debian
> Unstable got an update in the time between upgrading to 43 Alpha from
> Experimental and downgrading back to 42 from Unstable... I've just
> downgraded to 42.1 from Debian Testing and reverting the changes I
> made to ~/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf, things seem to be
> back
> to what I'm used to...
>
> Regarding a fix going forward, I didn't even know tables had
> structural navigation beyond press t in browse mode to jump to the
> beginning of the next table, but +1 to behavior should be consistent
> between different ways of navigating a table. Actually, many of the
> tables that were bogging me down with  the constant announcements of
> "row x , column y" were places I didn't realize were using tables
> prior to this hiccup and navigated either like ordinary paragraphs or
> by tabbing between links or form elements unaware a table was being
> used to manage their layout.
>
> Haven't tested master as I've never been all that comfortable with
> installing from source.
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