Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:51 +0200 (CEST) From: "Peter Laursen" <orca@tdlsoftware.org> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Firefox 3 and Orca: Accessibility issues] Message-ID: <25111.192.38.44.250.1253016291.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org>
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Hello everybody, Previously, I wrote to this list stating that Firefox 3 was not accessible with Orca, a screen reader allowing blind and visually impaired people to navigate around Gnome and interact with various applications. Since then, I have investigated the matter further and have found some interesting things: If Gnome 2.26.3 is built from packages, Firefox and Orca *do* work together as they are supposed to, meaning that visually impaired people can browse the web without booting into secondary operating systems. My question, therefore, is the following: With what options is the Gnome desktop built? Particularly, what Gecko engine is used in the built packages? I am running the latest FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 at the test machine I used for the purpose of building Gnome. * If one builds Gnome from ports (as I did yesterday), things do not go that well. Orca and Firefox are then unable to communicate, leaving one with the previous situation of not being able to browse the web. This leads me to a second question: Is there any way of seeing what Gecko engine (xulrunner etc) is being used? Can it be easily changed? As for the make config-recursive-step, I just pressed "OK", leaving the configurations in the default state. I look forward to hearing from you and will of course be willing to do some further testing. Best regards, Peter. P.S.: Orca and Firefox 2 has never been able to communicate - one would therefore only use Firefox 3.0 or 3.5
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