[orca] Update the forms how-to docs to reflect that Orca now has browse and focus modes
- From: Joanmarie Diggs <joanied src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [orca] Update the forms how-to docs to reflect that Orca now has browse and focus modes
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 07:10:16 +0000 (UTC)
commit 17edc16e8a525b9526b36d7108c948734f0b3eb5
Author: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>
Date: Sat Aug 29 03:07:59 2015 -0400
Update the forms how-to docs to reflect that Orca now has browse and focus modes
help/C/howto_forms.page | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/howto_forms.page b/help/C/howto_forms.page
index efdad1c..60c31df 100644
--- a/help/C/howto_forms.page
+++ b/help/C/howto_forms.page
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@
<p>
When interacting with web pages and other documents using <app>Orca</app>,
you are interacting with the document itself; not a buffered copy of that
- document. Thus there is no special mode to get into or out of when you
- wish to fill out a form. Instead, simply navigate to each field whose
- contents you wish to change, and interact with the widget as if it were in
- a dialog box.
+ document. <app>Orca</app>'s browse and focus modes let you switch between
+ reading and filling out forms.
</p>
<section>
<title>Navigating Amongst Form Fields</title>
@@ -31,7 +29,7 @@
<list>
<item>
<p>
- Use <key>Tab</key> and <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq>,
+ Use <key>Tab</key> and <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq>
to navigate amongst focusable objects, regardless of type.
</p>
</item>
@@ -48,36 +46,33 @@
</p>
</item>
</list>
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>
+ In order to use <app>Orca</app>'s caret navigation or structural navigation
+ commands to navigate to a form field, you must be in browse mode. If you are
+ in focus mode, you can switch to browse mode by pressing <keyseq><key>Orca
+ Modifier</key><key>A</key></keyseq>.
+ </p>
+ </note>
</section>
<section>
<title>Exiting Form Fields</title>
<p>
- Because there is no special mode in <app>Orca</app> for interacting with
- forms, the most frequently-asked question is how to exit a focused form
- field. For this, too, you have several options:
+ To exit a form field, you have several options:
</p>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Use <key>Tab</key>/<keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq>
if you wish to leave the currently-focused form field and move to the
- next/previous focusable object, regardless of what that object happens
- to be.
+ next/previous focusable object, regardless of type.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Use <app>Orca</app>'s <link xref="commands_structural_navigation#forms">
- structural navigation</link> to move to the next/previous form field:
- <keyseq><key>Orca Modifier</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq>/<keyseq>
- <key>Orca Modifier</key><key>Shift</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq>.
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Use <app>Orca</app>'s commands for moving to the next/previous object
- or chunk of text: <keyseq><key>Orca Modifier</key><key>Right</key>
- </keyseq>/<keyseq><key>Orca Modifier</key><key>Left</key></keyseq>.
+ structural navigation commands for forms</link> to move to the next or
+ previous form field.
</p>
</item>
<item>
@@ -87,6 +82,14 @@
</p>
</item>
</list>
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>
+ In order to use <app>Orca</app>'s caret navigation or structural navigation
+ commands to exit a form field, you must be in browse mode. If you are in
+ focus mode, you can switch to browse mode by pressing <keyseq><key>Orca
+ Modifier</key><key>A</key></keyseq>.
+ </p>
+ </note>
</section>
</page>
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