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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:17:52 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Peter Laursen <orca@tdlsoftware.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca
Message-ID:  <1217434672.7920.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <51686.82.147.249.193.1217434546.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org>
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On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:15 +0200, Peter Laursen wrote:
> Hi Joe,
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> FF 2 does not work with Orca, it never has. This was intentional, since F=
F
> 2 did not offer the same accessibility infrastructure.
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> FF 3 works with Orca on Ubuntu 8.04. The betas of FF 3 also worked on tha=
t
> 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?
Does orca successfully work with other applications on FreeBSD?

Joe

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> Thanks for the reply,
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> Peter.
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> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:56 +0200, Peter Laursen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Firefox 3.0 does not work with Orca. I am using Gnome 2.22 from ports
> >> and
> >> I have upgraded my ports tree this morning and run a portupgrade to
> >> re-build the ports. I installed /usr/ports/x11/gnome2.
> >>
> >> The only message Orca is able to give when I enter Firefox is "Restore
> >> Previous Session Inaccessible", meaning that no controls are visible a=
t
> >> all.
> >>
> >> This holds true for websites as well.
> >>
> >> To re-produce the problem:
> >>
> >> 1) Install /usr/ports/audio/espeak and re-build gnome-speech in order =
to
> >> get speech.
> >> 2. Run Orca.
> >> 3. Orca should take care of enabling accessibility support for Gnome.
> >> Log
> >> out.
> >> 4) Run firefox3 with Orca running. Even though one can use the tab key
> >> to
> >> move around, nothing is spoken.
> >>
> >> Since this is the only thing that keeps Ubuntu on my system, I would
> >> really like to have this problem fixed.
> >
> > Does orca work with FF3 on Ubuntu?  Does orca work with FF2 on FreeBSD?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >>
> >> I have built a debug image of Firefox 3, would the debug log be of any
> >> use
> >> in solving this problem?
> >>
> >> Looking forward to any response.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Peter.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
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> >
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