Re: Browsing hierarchical tree of comments
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Gene
I haven't tried this but I don't see how using the
cursor location feature would help much. You would still have to move to
the beginning of each comment and check the distance. If that would save
you time in not having to read any of the comment, I don't know but having to
move to the next comment and check the distance of each comment would seem to be
cumbersome and perhaps not much easier than reading a bit of each comment to see
if it’s a reply. but those who try this may explain that I'm wrong and
why.
Perhaps what we need, if this can be done, is a
feature or a plugin you can set to look for text that starts a certain distance
from the left side of the screen and then be able to jump to the next text that
starts at the same number of pixels from the left of the screen. You could
issue a next and a back command to move to these items. So the idea may
lead to a good solution if such a feature can be developed.
By the way, you don't have to issue the command
twice. It does the same thing if issued once or more times.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Malykh
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Browsing hierarchical tree of
comments Insert + Numpad Delete twice (Report review cursor location) and it will tell you the distance from the left edge of the screen. The greater the distance - the deeper the level of the comment. I think in theory something can be done on the client side to make the comments more readable for screenreader users.. You can write a browser plugin that would modify a page to include the level of the comment explicitly for example. But this is only in theory: my knowledge of javascript/HTML/CSS is too poor to write it myself. Tony On 12/6/2017 11:29 AM, Bill Dengler wrote: > I’m interested in this as well, but suspect it requires changes on the site’s end. > > Bill > >> On Dec 6, 2017, at 7:00 PM, Tony Malykh <anton.malykh@...> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Many websites have tree-like structure of comments. For >> example, reddit, hacker news, and probably a lot more websites are >> like this. Sometimes I would like to read some comments, but for >> example I would like to read only the top-level comments, and not the >> deeper levels, because that would be the replies to the top-level >> comments, and they are typically not as interesting. Is there any way >> to achieve this with NVDA? >> >> So, for example, I would like to have a key combination to jump to the >> next same level comment. Right now I can only jump to the next comment >> of any level by searching a keyword ("up vote" or something, that >> appears next to every comment), and then I'd have to deduce in my mind >> what level comment is this. It is very tedious to browse comments this way. >> >> Another way that might help me would be to figure out the level of the >> current comment. At least I'd be able to move down through the >> comments without reading them and without trying to deduce its level >> from the contents. >> >> I can use Firefox, Google Chrome and IE, so I'd be happy to find a solution that works in any of these browsers. >> >> Any advice would be appreciated! >> Tony >> >> >> >> > > >
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