Re: [orca-list] Odd behavior of Orca on the dictionary download page of Mozilla

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Hermann,

I tried downloading the French dictionary. I did not find any headings 
without text or some form of label. I could use structural navigation to 
move from heading to heading, or I could have Orca read the entire page.

the poor behavior I experienced was that I could not navigate the page 
using the cursor keys from the top. I would hear the first two 
navigation links ("skip to content", "skip to search form"), but nothing 
beyond that using the cursor keys. However, if at this point I navigated 
to the next heading, then cursor navigation worked successfully. i don't 
know if this problem was caused by parts of the page being in a 
different language (French) than the default (en-us) or what.

Which dictionary did you try to download?

dave


Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> can you confirm the following:
> Start Thunderbird and open the preferences dialog; go to the "compose"
> tab and click on the download link to get additional dictionaries.
> When FF opens, search for any dictionary and click the download link.
> Now you get the page with the detailed description of the dictionary, and
> there's also a final download link.
> When exploring this page you come upon an area containing empty
> headings. That means you hear and read in braille: "heading number"
> and you hear "text", but this message isn't brailled.
> In fact there is no text. Furthermore you get stuck on this part of the
> page, but you can tab out of it in order to find the download link.
> But then the next odd phenomenon occurs: You hear "download text" and you
> read "download link". In fact it's a link and it will open the download
> window after a long journey :-(
> What's that all about? Most disturbing is the fact that it is a Mozilla
> page, and I would expect Orca to work best on the Mozilla pages.
> It looks like we're falling back to a state of development I thought
> we've overcome.
> Hermann
>
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