Re: [orca-list] Orca no longer moving the cursor on same page links

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Garrett. Thanks for your report.

> 1. Go to Wikipedia.
> 2. Access any article.
> 3. Try to activate a link to any section in the article from the table 
> of contents.
>
> Expected result: Orca should place the cursor at the heading of the 
> linked-to section.
> Actual result: nothing happens.

Confirmed. I've opened up bug 544771 for this issue and attached a
preliminary patch. (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544771)

I've not yet run the regression tests, so I haven't marked the patch for
testing. What the patch does is move you to the anchor specified by the
link which, in the case of wikipedia happens to be in an empty paragraph
just before the link to edit that section. I don't think we have any way
of knowing that functionally the anchor is associated with the heading;
we just know where the link says we should go. But at least the anchor
is a lot closer than not moving at all. <smile>

Pending regression testing and other testing, we should have a fix
checked in soon.

Thanks and take care.
Joanie