Re: Orca There's something with Firefox 3 and a11y.

[Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs comcast net>]

I was just able to confirm this.  Kenny and Krister, I am going to 
assume that you're using Feisty rather than Edgy.  If so, this seems to 
be yet another problem associated with at-spi revisions beginning with 
882. <frown> Using revision 881, I don't have this problem.

I am *relatively* certain that using revision 881 doesn't cause 
other/different bad things to happen, but I make no promises.  You've 
been warned. <smile> That said, if you are having at-spi woes (like this 
one, like registry crashes, etc.) and want to give it a try, you can get 
this revision via subversion:

svn co --revision 881 http://svn.gnome.org/svn/at-spi/trunk at-spi-881

Then cd into your new at-spi-881 directory, build and install like you 
normally do, and reboot.  Hopefully life will be better.  If it isn't 
and you want to revert to the official at-spi you can do so with apt-get:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall at-spi

Note to others:  If you are running Edgy, I would not try this.  I have 
vague recollections of reading that some change in the recent version(s) 
of at-spi made it inadvisable to install it if you are using GNOME 2.16.

Hope this helps.  And if you do try it and it does fix things -- or even 
if it doesn't -- please post something here.

Take care.
Joanie

Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I only recently started using Firefox 3.  I have the same problem.  It
> doesn't start until I close Firefox.  At that point, Orca can't read my
> panels, desktop, or terminals.  With terminals, the results are strange.
> Oca can see the data on the screen, but it doesn't follow the cursor.  
> With the desktop or a panel, Orca tells me when they have focus, but
> can't read anything.
> The only way to fix the problem is to log out and in again.
>
> BTW, is there a way to disable the talkback plugin?  That thing isn't
> accessible.
>
>           Kenny
>
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