Support Windows/Linux-style forward delete feedback

chrome/browser/resources/chromeos/chromevox/common/editable_text_base.js

 // Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 goog.provide('cvox.ChromeVoxEditableTextBase');
 goog.provide('cvox.TextChangeEvent');
 goog.provide('cvox.TypingEcho');
 
 goog.require('cvox.AbstractTts');
 goog.require('cvox.ChromeVox');
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   // Next, see if one or more characters were deleted from the previous
   // cursor position and the new cursor is in the expected place. This
   // handles backspace, forward-delete, and similar shortcuts that delete
   // a word or line.
   prefixLen = evt.start;
   suffixLen = newLen - evtEnd;
   if (this.start == this.end &&
       evt.start == evtEnd &&
       evtValue.substr(0, prefixLen) == value.substr(0, prefixLen) &&
       evtValue.substr(newLen - suffixLen) ==
-      value.substr(len - suffixLen)) {
-    this.describeTextChangedHelper(
-        evt, prefixLen, suffixLen, autocompleteSuffix, personality);
+          value.substr(len - suffixLen)) {
+    // Forward deletions causes reading of the character immediately to the

[dmazzoni, 2016/06/27 22:08:28]

Do this only if cvox.ChromeVoxEditableTextBase.useIBeamCursor is false

+    // right of the caret.
+    if (this.start == evt.start && this.end == evt.end) {
+      this.speak(evt.value[evt.start], evt.triggeredByUser);
+    } else {
+      this.describeTextChangedHelper(
+          evt, prefixLen, suffixLen, autocompleteSuffix, personality);
+    }
     return;
   }
 
   // If all else fails, we assume the change was not the result of a normal
   // user editing operation, so we'll have to speak feedback based only
   // on the changes to the text, not the cursor position / selection.
   // First, restore the autocomplete text if any.
   evtValue += autocompleteSuffix;
 
   // Try to do a diff between the new and the old text. If it is a one character
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 /**
  * Moves the cursor backward by one paragraph.
  * @return {boolean} True if the action was handled.
  */
 cvox.ChromeVoxEditableTextBase.prototype.moveCursorToPreviousParagraph =
     function() { return false; };
 
 
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