Re: Orca My experiences with FireFox 3.0 and

[Erik Heil <eheil sdf lonestar org>]

Hello.  The Freedombox that i'm referring too is the Freedombox port to 
Linux that exists on freedombox.info.  to my knowledge, it uses Python, in 
addition it uses the existing ATSPI facilities along with the mechanisms 
that Firefox provides to access the content.  Interestingly enough,, you 
don't get access to the browser's native interface, but it does run of 
course within an X session.

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, hermann wrote:

> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:01:27 +0100
> From: hermann <steppenwolf2 onlinehome de>
> To: Erik Heil <eheil sdf lonestar org>
> Cc: Krister Ekstrom <krister kristersplace ws>, orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Orca My experiences with FireFox 3.0 and
>
> Hi Erik,
> what "Freedombox" are you talking about?
> Firefox has a caret browsing mode, which is supported by Orca. In
> addition the Orca team created a Orca controlled mode of the caret
> browsing, that's however not similar to the virtual buffer. It simply
> stabilizes the caret browsing provided by Firefox. It is useful to a
> certain extend, but, as Lorenzo has stated, gets stuck some times, and
> it doesn't support all operations that can be done on a webpage - see
> also Lorenzo's mail.
> In addition there are certain keys that navigate the page: "h" moves to
> the next heading, "o" to the next chunk. Using the shift key moves
> backward.
> However: There is a small bug I reported a few days ago: Firefox has a
> lot of hotkeys using the control key and a letter, among them control+h
> and control+o. This keystrokes cannot be used anymore, since Orca
> interprets them as navigation operations for headings and chunks.
> You see: We still are at the beginning, and there's a lot work to be
> done.
> Regards
> Hermann

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