Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:17:37 -0500, Peter Laursen <orca at tdlsoftware.org>  
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.

Our Firefox 3 is using its own Gecko 1.9. I am stupid on orca and  
accessibility, so I am not sure how to help you. I just know that our  
Firefox 3 does enable it by default.

------------------------------------------------
# pwd
/usr/ports/www/firefox3
# make configure
[...]
# grep ACCESSIBILITY  work/mozilla/mozilla-config.h
#define ACCESSIBILITY 1
#define MOZ_ACCESSIBILITY_ATK 1
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But I don't know why it doesn't work thought.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Peter.
>
>> Joe
>>
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