Re: [orca-list] problems with latest Orca and Firefox3

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Willie Walker writes:
> Hey All:
>
> I think we should all give Joanie a big round of applause for all the 
> Firefox work she's been doing lately.  It's having a huge positive 
> impact on the accessibility of Firefox, and she's doing this all for 
> free out of her belief in Orca.

Absolutely second the emotion. And, I will meekly add that I am now
almost daily the beneficiary of this wonderful work. FF3 is the
application I use most frequently on the desktop, and it's helping meet
my needs where I no longer have good alternative options.

Thanks, Joanie! A big thanks to you!

Janina

> Many thanks to Joanie for this work, and many thanks to the community 
> for testing and providing feedback!
>
> Will
>
> Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > A patch for the "not reading everything on the Minefield start page"
> > issue has been checked into trunk.  A performance patch which also
> > addresses repeating lines because we're getting hung up on various and
> > sundry embedded object characters can be found here:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=102572&action=view
> >
> > I am hoping to check it in before too long as well.  But it's a pretty
> > significant change to how we do things.  And while change is ultimately
> > good, it also tends to be kinda scary. However, that patch has been my
> > focus for the past week and I *think* it's to the point where it's safe
> > to try.... <smile>
> >
> > As for the interesting hierarchy I pointed out with respect to the
> > original problem site:  We're currently not quite presenting that top
> > section in the order it appears.  It should not be too hard to detect
> > the fact that the list items appear in the reverse order of their
> > hierarchical position.  It shouldn't be much more work to detect the
> > fact that the list appears below something which comes after it in the
> > hierarchy.  The trick is getting our navigation to reflect that. <smile>
> > Since the content is now presented, and the presentation *pretty close*
> > to how it's displayed, I'd rather continue to focus on performance and
> > actual bugs for the time being.
> >
> > Thanks for all the feedback guys!!
> > --Joanie
> >
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