Re: Instantiating Firefox A11y on GNOME



Hi Brad,

I've tested on Ubuntu 8.10, the patch v3 in bmo #460926 works for Firefox 3.0.5 along with the atk-bridge change.

To make sure atk-bridge was updated correctly, you can download a nightly build of Firefox trunk or 1.9.1 branch.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.1/

Does it work on openSUSE 11.1?

If you export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 before starting Firefox, do you see "firefox" or "Firefox" or nothing in accerciser?

Ginn

On Jan 17, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Brad Taylor wrote:

Hey,

Please correct me if I'm wrong (and I hope I am), but I think distros
are still having a bit of a headache getting Firefox accessibility to
start up.  I personally am using the workaround Steve gave us here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460926#c4 on my install of
Intrepid (Ubuntu).

David, thanks for bringing up this issue on the list.  This has been
discussed on various Bugzillas since before the winter break, and I
think this is a much better forum for getting this issue behind us.

I'd like to see if we can solve this configuration (?) issue on list as it seems it may involve a coordinated effort. In particular it would be
great it Brad and folks could connect with Ginn and folks :)

Ginn, thanks for working on this issue.  We (Novell) have been
following bmo #460926 intently, and Hubert has prepared openSUSE 11.1
packages with the fix you've provided.  I've tested this build in
concert with the atk-bridge change (that will be dropping in openSUSE
11.1 shortly) and they don't appear to fix Firefox's lack of
accessibility.  This is with a stock openSUSE 11.1 VMWare image and no
gconf changes. Is there some component I'm missing to get this to work?

If anyone has a recent Firefox (nightly or trunk) with accessibility
working on a recent GNOME stack, and are NOT using the workaround above
please let us know. If this isn't happening we may need to reopen bmo
460926...

To add to the list of bugs:

Novell's Firefox issue:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457728

OpenSUSE 11.1 packages are available on the above bug for those who
would like to test for us.

Red Hat's Firefox issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474680

Best,

-Brad



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