Re: [orca-list] Object mnemonics and Braille
- From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
- To: Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>
- Cc: Orca-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Object mnemonics and Braille
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:44:03 -0400
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588875 is being used to track
this feature. From that bug:
"One way to do this would be to look at the attributes of the text and
use the text attributes feature to represent the attribute in braille.
When I look at menu and menu items in gnome-terminal, for example, I see
the "underline:low" attribute being used to paint the mnemonic.
Doing this for all objects *might* be as easy as moving the
getAttributeMask from the Text class to the Component class in braille.py."
Michael Whapples wrote:
I've started using the speak object mnemonics feature in orca (I am
using orca 2.27.5) and was wondering whether it would be possible for a
similar feature to be added to Braille output.
Now I am not so certain on how this could be done. One way would be just
add the information on to the Braille output (like it is added to speech
output). Possibly a better option (if possible) is for orca to underline
the letter (like is is done visually in menus). However this second one
I could imagine to be more difficult to implement as it sometimes isn't
just a letter from the item but rather a keyboard shortcut (eg. in the
orca preferences the "OK" button is alt+o). May be that example wasn't
the best, alt_o is to do with the "O" in the "OK" and for some platforms
(I don't know about GTK) the O might be underlined visually to indicate
the shortcut key, but you hopefully get what I am getting at.
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