Re: [orca-list] Orca and Acrobat Reader not cooperating

["nolan" <nolan thewordnerd info>]

This doesn't help directly with your issue, but I have experienced this 
behavior with other applications, though I've been too lazy to set up 
orca's logging to help debug it, especially as I can't reliably 
duplicate it. If you can, though, I hope you file a bug report. :)

Sometimes it seems like apps block all accessibility information. This 
isn't quite the "closing windows locks up the desktop" issue, because I 
can still use the desktop, and if I use my terminal hotkey, kill Orca 
and then usually restart Speech-dispatcher for good measure, I get 
speech back. I notice that it often seems to happen with Firefox, but I 
can't reliably duplicate it as you can.


On 01/29/2009 10:47 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi List
> I'm experiencing this in both Ubuntu 8.10 and the 9.04 alpha. I've 
> tried both the packages from Adobe and those from the Medibuntu 
> repositories with the same result.
> When I launch Acrobat reader the first time, I can accept the license 
> agreement. When I do so, however, Orca no longer speaks. Relaunching 
> Orca doesn't help, and the only thing that does is killing the Acrobat 
> reader process. From then on, launching Acrobat reader triggers this. 
> I've had the screen looked at and can verify from my system's behavior 
> that nothing is locked, including Acrobat reader itself. It seems 
> almost as though Acrobat reader is somehow blocking accessibility 
> information from getting to Orca, though I'm not sure if that's even 
> possible. I can do nothing with Orca until the acrobat reader process 
> is killed, but my system operates normally in every other way. One 
> interesting fact, and no idea if it's relevant, but I need to send a 
> sigkill to the acroread process, simply using the kill command is not 
> enough. This is with Acrobat reader 8.1.3, is there another version I 
> should use? Or is something else happening? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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