Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca

[Peter Laursen]

> 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?

I have been unable to install the ad-on on FreeBSD (I am blind, so I
couldn't use the browser). On Ubuntu and the latest official Firfox
version, the add-on reportet that "Firefox currently does not have
accessibility API support active." It still worked, though.

At about the same time I sent the initial email to this list, I wrote the
developers of Orca. I have received no reply as of yet.
>
Peter.

> Joe
>
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