Comment 9 by camlorn on 2012-04-10 01:22
What is the status of this? I really, really want it.

As I mentioned in a ticket I previously posted, nvda actually supports more accessibility apis than, say, jaws (this is sad, given that Freedom Scientific gets paid every time someone wants to use it) and I wish to use it for programming.  In the current setup, viewing the msdn references is nearly impossible because of the tables that have, I kid you not, upwards of 200 rows in some cases.

I'm not sure why we can't just do the following; I haven't looked at nvda's actual code, but do program a bit.

When a keystroke, say >, is pressed, move to the point in the parent node, whatever that may be, directly after the closing tag. When a keystroke, say < is pressed, move to the point in the parent node before the opening tag. Repeating these keystrokes then moves in and out.

The trick after this is simple.  Limit the list to, for instance, table tags. Or frame tags. Or a user specified list.  If you are feeling ambitious, add a second keystroke to do it unconditionally, even for tags that doesn't make sense; in short, the above without limiting the considering tags.  I would recommend regarding only table, frame, and list tags; this is what jaws seems to do, and it works well.  To get this to work, when looking at the tree, you ahve to regard only those tags in question, or you start running into all sorts of fun.  There's also problems with malformed html, especially since what the browser does to it can vary, but that's perhaps another issue and I'm not qualified to talk about this beyond a very, very broad outline.

Clarification: I don't mean regard only one tag. I mean consider all three when looking for the point in question; stop searching when any tag in the list of regarded tags at the same level is found.

This implementation is naive, but should at least provide some specifics to the feature; the main issue here seems to be  lack of highly specific requirements.


Being a power user of just about everything I bother to learn, user-specified list is my favorite.
I'm not as knowledgeable on this as I sound...take it with a grain of salt.

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NVDA should provide ability to navigate out of HTML elements in virtual buffer #123

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