Re: JFW keymap like orca keymap?

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:46:39 +0300

I don't understand. You said that if I start typing letters or numbers, it makes me tab out. This means that you are referring on how it works if the focus is in a text field, right? 


But this means that you can't type letters and numbers in a text field.
This is the way Jaws works, but the other list member told that in Orca you can type the letters and numbers in the text field, without needing to turn a forms mode on. 

Please explain.

Thanks.

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: JFW keymap like orca keymap?



Hi,
If you keep arrowing down, it works just like reading normal text, but if
you start typing characters such as letters, numbers, and punctuation, it
makes you tab out. Open your mind. grhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrowl


Jim
James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Octavian Rasnita wrote:


Well, I don't think I like that way, because I use to read some pages

with

the up and down arrow keys, and if I reach a text field, I don't like to

need

using a tab key to move out of it.


You shouldn't have to. To put focus in the form field use the arrows
(left and right) + insert or
the tab key... I think it will let you type if you are arrowed over the
box and let you use the arrows to get out...
I'll admit that I don't use orca much perhaps 5% of the time and the rest
of the time with lynx and brltty.
Since I'm using brltty with no keyboard map just my display keymaps I
thought orca keymaps would be best...

With lynx though if you arrow a form field it will let you type. You just
arrow off it to keep going down... Well actually you use the reading keys
of your screenreader (In my set up the keys on my braille display) to read
the page...
Dunno if orca does this though. I'll test later... Anyone know?


And by the way, if the focus is on the text field and I hit tab, where is

the

focus put? I hope not on the next link or form field... because I may

want to

Uh...? Well whatever the tab key is mapped to in your browser... Just use
the arrows...
In lynx (the command line browser) I don't believe tab does much.

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