Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:48:12 +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: <49440.82.147.249.193.1217490492.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> In-Reply-To: <1217450035.57566.10.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> <52589.82.147.249.193.1217441857.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> <1217450035.57566.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 20:17 +0200, Peter Laursen wrote: >> > 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. > > Can you go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2407 , > install this addon, then go to about:accessibilityenabled and see if > AT-SPI support is enabled? I have been unable to install the ad-on on FreeBSD (I am blind, so I couldn't use the browser). On Ubuntu and the latest official Firfox version, the add-on reportet that "Firefox currently does not have accessibility API support active." It still worked, though. At about the same time I sent the initial email to this list, I wrote the developers of Orca. I have received no reply as of yet. > Peter. > Joe > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc >
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