Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:41:15 +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: <52071.82.147.249.193.1217439675.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> In-Reply-To: <1217434672.7920.35.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>
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> 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. Cheers, and thank you, Peter. > Joe > >> >> Thanks for the reply, >> >> Peter. >> >> > 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 >> at >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome >> >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > -- >> > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc >> > >> >> >> > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc >
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