Re: [orca-list] announcement of page numbers

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

Hi Kendell,

I'd sure appreciate such a feature in Libreoffice Writer.

One of the things I liked on my Windows/JAWS/Word setup was that every 
time you changed pages, JAWS would announce "Page 1", "Page 2" etc.

I've never come across a similar feature in Writer - I think Orca 
remains silent when you cross a page boundary.

So to expand on your original request:  What would be great would be to 
have something like a hot key to report the current page number, and 
also an announcement each time you navigated to a different page.

Thoughts? I've no idea if page information is exposed via any of the 
accessibility APIs - one for Joanie perhaps :)

Regards,

Nick

On 20/04/16 10:35, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> I've noticed a feature missing that I thought might be useful. That's
> announcement of page numbers in word processors, document viewers, etc.
> I'm not absolutely certain this feature is missing so if it's there, I
> apologize for my ignorance. Would it be possible to add this and make it
> configurable? This would be really convenient in apps like libre office
> or evince, but could be useful in other apps as well. I can't remember
> if this has been brought up on hear before. If so, I apologize for the
> spam. What does everyone else think? Would this be a good idea? One
> thing I'm not sure of is if there's a standard way of calculating page
> numbers, or if it's app specific?
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
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