I'm using NVDA and I like the way NVDA handles this. NVDA has an option called "Avoid splitting words if possible" under Braille settings which is checked by default. Works great!
On 3 December 2015 at 21:40, Mario Lang <ml...@delysid.org> wrote: > Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> writes: > >> [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2015/12/03 at 19:41 +0100] >> >>>While I am personally unlikely to use this feature, I know that it is >>>being offered in JAWS at least. In fact, I remember having to turn it >>>off, because they had it enabled as default for new installations. >>>Come to think of it, I seem to remember that VoiceOver does something >>>similar on iOS and Mac OS X. >>>This seems to indicate that there is a number of users around that would >>>actually prefer this behaviour. >> >> I think we have all the pieces to support such a mode. It'd be like using a >> contraction table that simply translates each character to itself. > > Hmm, alternatively, we could also scroll horizontally a few characters > less if necessary, and treat the last cells differently, probably > masking them away. > >>>When underlyining attributes in this new mode, we should include *one* space >>>before stopping. This is what I have seen in other screen readers, and it >>>makes quite a lot of sense. >> >> I'm not understanding. >> also, given that different characters of the same word can have different >> highlighting, it seems wrong to me to be anything other than precisely >> accurate. > > Ohh, now I get where I was blurry. What I mean is, if a word is > followed by spaces, and those are highlighted, this should still > be displayed. Only incomplete *words* should be masked away. > > -- > CYa, > ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
