Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Jul 30 15:03:49 UTC 2008


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.
> 
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