Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca

[Peter Laursen]

> 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.

Peter.

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