Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:17:52 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Peter Laursen <orca@tdlsoftware.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3 not accessible with Orca Message-ID: <1217434672.7920.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <51686.82.147.249.193.1217434546.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> References: <51248.82.147.249.193.1217415385.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org> <1217430239.7920.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <51686.82.147.249.193.1217434546.squirrel@tdlsoftware.org>
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--=-aTmvwW0rss7HT9f1/hBg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:15 +0200, Peter Laursen wrote: > Hi Joe, >=20 > FF 2 does not work with Orca, it never has. This was intentional, since F= F > 2 did not offer the same accessibility infrastructure. >=20 > FF 3 works with Orca on Ubuntu 8.04. The betas of FF 3 also worked on tha= t > 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? Does orca successfully work with other applications on FreeBSD? Joe >=20 > Thanks for the reply, >=20 > Peter. >=20 > > 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 a= t > >> 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. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" > >> > > -- > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > > >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-aTmvwW0rss7HT9f1/hBg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkiQlC8ACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4f/NgCgmMkzbscrPHSCW6YKGsvMQ3Ug r1MAnixZdt99qjdgUemuaBrybUFbtf5k =kQtO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-aTmvwW0rss7HT9f1/hBg--
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