Re: Orca seems to get stuck on links with Firefox 3

[Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs comcast net>]

Hi Krister.

Sometimes the way a page is marked up causes Orca to get stuck. We're 
working on identifying the various conditions which cause this to occur 
and fix them (if they are Orca bugs) or file them (if they are Firefox 
bugs).

In order to identify what the specific problem is in your case, it would 
be helpful to have the URL where you get stuck, the exact location on 
that page where you got stuck, and what keystrokes you used to get 
stuck.  From there, we should be able to figure out the specific cause.

I encourage anyone who finds such a problem to provide this information 
on the list.  I realize it's "one more thing to do" when all you wanted 
to do was read the page. <smile>  But it would be really helpful to 
getting to the bottom of things.

In the meantime, when you get stuck using up and down arrow, try moving 
by word with control and the arrow keys.  I have found that when I get 
stuck moving by line, I can move by word a few times and then resume 
navigating as usual.  I think this would be preferable to using Tab as 
you might be skipping over plain text.

Hope this helps!
Joanie


Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi to the list again,
> Yesterday i downloaded the then latest nightly build of Firefox and the
> latest svn version of Orca and was trying to surf as usual when to my
> horror navigation seemed to get stuck, not only in complex tables, which
> i have a feeling that it often can get stuck in but also on rows
> containing links. I couldn't move the cursor up or down and the only way
> to get out of this was to tab to the next link and then try navigating
> with arrow keys again. Anyone else encountered this problem? Does it
> sound familiar for developers? and thirdly what should i do?
> /Krister
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