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

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Thanks to George Kraft for the pointer that helped me resolve my at-spi
issues on FC6. The resolution was to upgrade both gdm and gnome-session.
The needed packages for FC6 are now available on the
SpeakupModified-Development repository.

The versions I'm now using are:

gdm-2.17.8
gnome-session-2.17.92

I will be rebuilding at-spi shortly to add these as runtime requirements
to insure they're loaded whenever anyone yum upgrades at-spi.

Janina


Willie Walker writes:
> Please also refer to this at-spi bug, which Rich has made great progress 
> with today: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412286.
>
> Will
>
> Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > 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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> >
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