Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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?

Joe

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