Re: [orca-list] Option to turn off auto-focus mode for native navigation (was Re: Tips and tricks for Orca and Firefox)

[Ishe Chinyoka <chinyoka consultant gmail com>]

Hi Joanie,

Thanks for the update. I just pulled it and I can confirm that at least
this is what I had been waiting for: the ability to turn off autofocus
in every page. The new option of "Turn Off Focus in Native" seems to
have done the trick. Thanks.


By the way, how do we access sidebar items in Firefox? That seems to
elude me: I would like to access my tweets that are posted in the
Twitter add-on in Firefox.

Regards,

Ishe


On Wednesday, 19 August 2020, at 12:26, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> Hey Rastislav and all.
>
> Comments inline below.
>
> On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 16:48 +0200, Rastislav Kish via orca-list wrote:
>
> > As for the disabling of autofocus, I would like to disable this 
> > functionality completely, so Orca doesn't switch between modes under
> > any 
> > circumstances, even after page load or refresh.
>
> "Any circumstances" is hard. But I just added a new option to Orca
> master which will attempts to do this for "native" navigation which
> right now means "anything which is not caret navigation or structural
> navigation" (so Tab, page load, etc.). Hopefully it will make things
> better.
>
> >  The problem with 
> > automatic focusing is, that it's quite unpredictable, in all 
> > screenreaders. On some sites it works, on some not, and because many 
> > times I don't even want to write anything, I often find myself in
> > fight 
> > with switching of modes before I'm able to do what I want. As I
> > said, 
> > this is not just problem of Orca, but also Jaws, NVDA and other 
> > screenreaders, that's the reason why I usually turn auto focusing 
> > completely off.
>
> For those instances where Orca does something unpredictable it would be
> helpful to know. It could be the browser and/or author doing something
> bad. Then again, it could be an Orca bug. Then again, it could be an
> Orca feature that is not working the way you want. If the issue is on
> the side of Orca, and we all agree what the desired behavior is, I can
> of course fix/change Orca -- as long as I know about the issue and can
> experience it myself. :)
>
> Thanks for the answers and feedback, and please let me know how the new
> feature works for you.
>
> --joanie
>
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