Re: [orca-list] Firefox Live Region support change

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

BTW - Many thanks to Scott for persevering with this work.  This was a 
HARD patch to do with many revisions.  Thanks, Scott!

Will

PS - Thanks also to the Mozilla Foundation, which funded this work. 
Open source kicks butt!

Scott Haeger wrote:
> Hey Everybody!
>
> We've just checked in a major change to how Orca handles live regions.
> The new change gives Orca partial support for live regions that do not
> have ARIA markup.  This is an exciting change because this greatly
> increases the number of real life web pages that we support.  Orca live
> region support for http://finance.google.com and
> http://finance.yahoo.com is now quite good.  In the coming weeks I will
> be focusing on adding additional support for the sports scoreboards at
> ESPN and CBS sports.
>
> I suggest visiting http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox/LiveRegions if you
> are not familiar with live regions.  Here you will find a brief
> explanation of live regions, the Orca keyboard commands associated with
> live region support, and several links to known live region containing
> web sites.  Please feel free to add to the list of known web sites by
> editing the wiki or posting to this list.  In addition, I would greatly
> appreciate any feedback about our live region support, including feature
> requests.
>
> There are a couple of known issues:
> 1)  Since there is no ARIA markup, determining what is and what is not a
> live region can be tricky because there is nothing to definitively tell
> us that an event is a live region change.  We have set up an event
> filter for this purpose but it may not be fool proof.  Please let us
> know if you come across a web site that announces more information than
> it use to.  This indicates that some event was treated as a live region
> when in fact it was not.  Please pay close attention to web sites that
> have widgets that build themselves dynamically.
>
> 2)  Navigating a web page (eg. tabbing) is a bit sluggish when live
> region announcements are being made.  We are aware of this and are
> trying to address it.
>
> 3)  Moving to the last live region (key command 'y') may be out of sync
> with the announcement on very busy pages.  We are trying to address this.
>
> Have fun!
> Scott
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