[audacity4blind] Re: Labels
- From: David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:42:47 +0000 (UTC)
Hi Robert,
your method is ingenious.
A user would still be advised to move away from the label track after using it,
so that they don't accidentally and silently create spurious labels.
One drawback of the current Labels editor is that in general it doesn't keep
track of the current cursor position, so you have to move through several cells
in the table just to get to the next label.
David.
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 22:16, Robert Hänggi <aarjay.robert@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I think that some label features could be made accessible without
waiting for a developer directing his attention to it.
I've only NVDA on my system, so I can only describe how a Jaws script
could do it.
Background:
There's the convenient way of using tab and shift-tab to move between labels.
However, the label text is immediately in edit mode which is
apparently not desirable for users of a screen reader.
Thus, a script has to be executed instead of the normal behaviour:
- Tab (or shift-tab) script start
- send the key to the application and wait
- send the "End" key, this moves the pseudo-text-cursor to the end of
the label field (which is in edit mode)
- Send shift-home to select the whole text.
- save the the current content of the clipboard (if any)
- copy selected text to clipboard
- Read clipboard content
- restore clipboard content
- send enter to Audacity (edit mode is off)
- end script
You can now e.g. play from this position or do something else.
From some scripting experience with Jaws, I can assure that this is
perfectly feasible.
The only problem might be to check if the label track has focus.
However, it might be enough to make certain that we are on a track and
not e.g. in a dialog box or a selection spin box.
Do you understand the method?
Regards
RJ
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