Re: [orca-list] Selecting web content in Visual Studio Code terminal window

[Andy Borka <sonfire11 gmail com>]

Hi,


I can try using the flat review commands. At this point, the only one I 
am aware of, will only copy the current word to the clipboard. How would 
I get around this?


On 3/23/22 08:46, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Andy.
>
> Could you work around it using flat review copy/append to clipboard
> commands? They are unbound by default.
>
> I can confirm the issue, but solving it as you describe is not going to
> be easy. It will require changes made in the browsers and possibly even
> in ATK/AT-SPI2. Some more details:
>
> ATK/AT-SPI2's text selection interface is (I believe) intended to allow
> one to select text across multiple elements. In practice, however, that
> fails. See these bugs:
>
> * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544973
> * https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=959838
>
> Because of those bugs, my attempts to implement Orca-based text
> selection using AT-SPI2 failed. We need the bugs above to be fixed
> first or another solution (new API) created and then implemented in the
> browsers. When all that happens, then I can add support in Orca to use
> those fixes/new API.
>
> That said, for typical text content, the browsers' native keyboard-
> based selection support works well enough. Therefore, when you're using
> Orca in browse mode and then use Shift + caret navigation commands,
> Orca is not controlling the caret like it normally would. It lets the
> browser's keyboard navigation do the selection and then reports what
> gets selected (as told to Orca by AT-SPI2). It's not great, but at
> least it tends to work around the bugs above well enough -- as long at
> the browser (or in this case web app) provides text selection via
> keyboard.
>
> The VSCode's terminal does not have keyboard-based text selection. So
> Orca is, as you stated, doing nothing. The web app is also doing
> nothing. And when nothing is being done, there are no accessibility
> events to speak.
>
> Sorry!!
> --joanie
>
> On Tue, 2022-03-22 at 09:43 -0400, Andy Borka via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Is there a workaround for the following problem? If so, how to get
> > around it? if not, can it be fixed somehow?
> >
> >
> > Using Ubuntu 22.04, Visual Studio Code 1.66 insider's and Orca 42
> > beta.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a problem selecting content in the user interface. Do the
> > folowing for an example.
> >
> >
> > 1. Load Visual Studio Code 1.66 insider's.
> >
> > 2. While in an empty environment, press Ctrl+grave (`) for a terminal
> > window.
> >
> > 3. In the terminal prompt, type ls and press ENTER.
> >
> > 4. Turn on browse mode with ORCA+A.
> >
> > 5. Navigate to the results from the ls command.
> >
> > 6. Try using selection commands on the results.
> >
> >
> > Expected results: OrcA announces and selects the requested content.
> >
> > Actual results: Orca does nothing and remains silent.
> >
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