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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:59:46 -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:  <1217440786.57566.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <52071.82.147.249.193.1217439675.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org>
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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, sinc=
e
> >> 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?
>=20
> 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 straigh=
t
> out of the box.
>=20
>=20
> > Does orca successfully work with other applications on FreeBSD?
> >
>=20
> 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?  I was able to find http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox
which talkes about orca and FF3.  Anything here make sense?

Joe

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