Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca

[Peter Laursen]

> 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.
>> >>
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