Re: [orca-list] virtual Carret is not stored in Minefield when returning from another window

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

The problem with help is that the application that provides it, yelp, is 
using the old Gecko rendering engine which is not very accessible.  We 
need to get yelp migrated to the new Gecko engine that's used by Firefox 
3.  This won't happen until Firefox 3.0 is released along with the new 
Gecko engine, however, because the yelp folks cannot depend upon 
unreleased software.

Help in Firefox 3 itself, however, should work because I believe it's 
providing its own help and not relying upon yelp.

We're tracking the problems here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356041
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499744

Hope this helps,

Will

Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I just installed firefox from 01/27/2008 and yes, the focus problem
> goes away.  But alas,  the help is hopelessly broken.  Well almost
> hopelessly:).  I tried the help (F1) from the terminal and from the
> file browser and both help files gave me problems.  In all cases, the
> flat review keys don't speak at all. Some times after switching
> screens with another web page like paypal or something, I can
> sometimes get the help page to work.  But I think in all cases, the
> flat review keys don't work at all during the help screens.  Well, I
> just alt tabbed over to firefox with a help window showing and I got
> the flat review keys to speak  but every time I tried to review
> current line, it always reads the top level menu bar.
>
> So you were looking for an example of where the flat review keys don't
> work properly, just go to your nearest help panel, use the ayer script
> that was furnished on the list here and open it up.  You will see the
> problems I'm having as well as the flat keys staying at the top of the
> screen.  I'm pretty sure you can go and read down line by line but it
> obviously is not syncing with the cursor.  Also before I forget, much
> of this help problem is pressing the regular up and down arrow keys
> yields silence.
>
> HTH.
>
> P>S>  I haven't heard much on the help deal here. Does anyone use
> online help much? I need it heavily in order to learn my way around
> this new environment.
>
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:14:26PM -0500, Scott Haeger wrote:
> > Hey Steve. Have you tried the 1/27 version of Firefox? I know the focus 
> > event is good in that version. I am curious to know if it fixes your 
> > problem. I just checked the latest version of Firefox and the focus 
> > event problem is still there. I had hoped that would be fixed by now but 
> > it is not.
> >
> > Scott
>
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