[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: The definition of the cursor being in a word

On 28/05/2010 9:07 PM, Michael Whapples wrote:

we feel the definition of being in a word may need redefining, as even when
the cursor is at the point just after a word, in an editor, any further
insertions will edit the word.
I'm not sure it's fair to say that there is a truly "correct" or "incorrect" approach, but what you say does make sense to me. In fairness, although I do use a Braille display from time to time, it isn't my primary form of output from screen readers. 


Let say we have a string "this this this" (I will refer to it as
variable s). At the moment liblouis treats the cursor to be in the first
word when it is at index 0, 1, 2 or 3. We feel that index 4 should be
treated also as being in the word
Another (perhaps more extreme) example is the word knowledge, where five cells will literally disappear when you type the last letter.
One question is: when reviewing text, does this behaviour still make sense? The Orca bug you referenced suggests that perhaps read only text fields should disable expansion at the cursor, but I don't know if this is feasible for some implementations. 


Has NVDA overcome the issue in another way?

No.
In conclusion, I don't really have a problem with this being changed, but perhaps opinion needs to be sought from users who use Braille as their primary output method. 

Jamie

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