Re: Orca Firefox 3 better accessible?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> The released alpha version crashes every 5 minutes, and the quality 
> feedback assistant is not accessible; so there was no testin.
... 
> I then downloaded a nightly build of FF 3, and this works stable on my 
> machine.

You probably should stick with the latest nightly builds.  We're working
pretty closely with the Firefox team, and they just recently fixed a
major crasher.  The following link will always get you the latest
nightly:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

> However: What is the diference regarding accessibility between FF 2.0 an 3?

The Firefox team is re-doing the accessibility support for FF3.

> One difference I could figure out is that the letter "h" moves to the next 
> heading and shift+h moves backward. But: If you press alt+h to access the 
> help menu, you get read the next heading; you've to search for the menu bar 
> and click "help".

The caret navigation that's build into Firefox is currently pretty poor,
and assistive technologies such as Orca are forced to write their own
navigation code.  :-(  We're still plugging away at this in Orca.

Thanks for the mention of Alt+h: our navigation model was erroneously
consuming this, and I just checked in a fix for it.  The fix is in GNOME
CVS HEAD and will not be in a formal release of Orca until v2.17.5 in a
couple weeks.

> What's your experience with FF 3 and Orca?

Step by step and we'll hopefully get there.

Will