Re: [orca-list] [Fwd: Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.2 is available, please write a review]

["Bohdan R. Rau" <ethanak polip com>]

Dnia 26-01-2008, sob o godzinie 05:05 -0500, Willie Walker pisze:
[...]
> I'm not sure if this is fixable in the extension (I have no insight into 
> its internal workings), so maybe the home/end navigation tip you give is 
> the best thing if it cannot be fixed.

As in Firefox every element may be focused, my idea is:
a) if the node has no tabindex attribute, set the attribute to "-1"
b) call node.focus() method.

[...]

The patched version of Accessibility Extension is on
http://www.polip.com/temp/accessext_patched.xpi

There are two changes:

1) In "menu and navigation bars" both trees has currentIndex
automatically set to 0 and selects first row when there are elements in
the tree and no element is selected.

2) "Move to heading" works properly when there is no link in the heading
or all content of heading is the link:
<h2><a href="...">text</a></h2>

If there is mixed content in the heading:

<h2><a href="...">text</a>other text</h2>

it should be still usable, but focus is given to first link, not to the
heading.

This part of script is not finished (the function should remove
"tabindex" attribute from element if it was set by extension) but I
think it's enough for tests.

In other way: the Accessibility Extension is great, but has many
functions not very ineresting for typical user. May be it's time to
create "Orca extension" to Firefox? IMHO DOM methods are faster...

Bohdan