Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:17:37 +0200 (CEST) From: "Peter Laursen" <orca@tdlsoftware.org> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca Message-ID: <52589.82.147.249.193.1217441857.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> In-Reply-To: <1217440786.57566.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <51248.82.147.249.193.1217415385.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> <1217430239.7920.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <51686.82.147.249.193.1217434546.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> <1217434672.7920.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <52071.82.147.249.193.1217439675.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> <1217440786.57566.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:41 +0200, Peter Laursen wrote: >> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:15 +0200, Peter Laursen wrote: >> >> Hi Joe, >> >> >> >> FF 2 does not work with Orca, it never has. This was intentional, >> since >> >> FF >> >> 2 did not offer the same accessibility infrastructure. >> >> >> >> FF 3 works with Orca on Ubuntu 8.04. The betas of FF 3 also worked on >> >> that >> >> platform. >> > >> > I'll be honest, I know nothing of accessibility, and I don't use FF3. >> > Does FF3 require some option to enable the accessibility framework? >> >> There is nothing in the user interface as far as I know. Every release I >> ever downloaded when I used Ubuntu was pre-compiled and it worked >> straight >> out of the box. >> >> >> > Does orca successfully work with other applications on FreeBSD? >> > >> >> Orca works with all the other applications I have tried - Evolution, >> OpenOffice, the only one it does not work with is Firefox 3. > > That's good to hear. Are you using the same version of orca on Ubuntu > as on FreeBSD? Yes, I was using the exact same version. I was able to find http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox > which talkes about orca and FF3. Anything here make sense? Yes, it just described the installation procedure (which I followed on Ubuntu). On FreeBSD, I compiled it from ports. What version of Gecko is FF 3 built with on FreeBSD? Ubuntu uses Gecko 1.9 as far as I know. Peter. > Joe > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc >
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