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I have officially found a way to solve all the focus mode issues on Orca. If you're in an app such as semaphore and you're going to be for some time, this is worth doing. Press Orca f12 to make the application control the caret, then press orca Z to disable structural navigation. Now the app you're using has full control of everything and Orca just reads stuff. Although I find myself unable to change those shortcuts, as I'd personally like to be able to press orca R, then orca Z to snap into this state quickly. #Accessibility #Linux
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Peter Vágner
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@destructatron Isn't pressing orca+a twice to force focus mode enough?
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@pvagner Not in all cases. Sometimes something in Orca breaks and it goes into browse mode, so what ever you're typing in that text field gets interpreted as structural navigation and you go all over the place, or you're in a list on something like Discord and suddenly your experience isn't as smooth.
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@fireborn That's true, but for stuff like browsers where you kind of want to use structural navigation and stuff like that, it's better to do it this way when you're in a web app in a browser. As far as I know Orca won't detect the window title and go yep let's automatically disable these things.
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@fireborn How do you even make Semaphore work correctly with that? When I go to add an instance it just opens firefox.
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