Version: 52.0.2734
ChromeVox classic and next
OS: Chrome
Keyboard explorer - 3 improvements needed
1. Any keys with duel meaning don't speak what the second function is. For example. the comma key says comma but not left caret. Here is a list of all the keys we should consider revising spoken labels for:
Comma - change spoken label to comma or left caret
Period -- change to period or right comma
Forward slash - change to forward slash or question mark
Semicolon - change to semicolon or colon
Single quote - change to single quote or double quote
Backslash - change to backslash or vertical line (not sure what that vertical line is called)
Grave accent - change to grave accent or tilde
1 - change to 1 or exclamation point
2 - change to 2 or at
3 - change to 3 or pound
4 - change to 4 or dollar sign
5 - change to 5 or percent sign
6 - change to 6 or caret
7 - change to 7 or ampersand
8 - change to 8 or asterisk
9 - change to 9 or open parenthesis
10 - change to 10 or close parenthesis
Dash - change to dash or underscore
Equal sign - change to equal sign or plus sign
The alternative here is to make it so that when the user holds down shift and that given key, that it then reads the secondary key name. But, currently that doesn't work because pressing shift makes chromevox read "shift".
2. Also, it's great that all the top row keys now have spoken labels. However, when I press them, they actually execute the given function, which can be confusing for the user since none of the other keys do that. Is there a way we can make these non-functional until the user exits this mode?
3. When you load the keyboard explorer, a very lengthy URL is read aloud. Can we make it so that the page title is simply read instead?
Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, May 26 2016