[orca-list] Orca and Acrobat Reader not cooperating

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi List
I'm experiencing this in both Ubuntu 8.10 and the 9.04 alpha. I've  
tried both the packages from Adobe and those from the Medibuntu  
repositories with the same result.
When I launch Acrobat reader the first time, I can accept the license  
agreement. When I do so, however, Orca no longer speaks. Relaunching  
Orca doesn't help, and the only thing that does is killing the Acrobat  
reader process. From then on, launching Acrobat reader triggers this.  
I've had the screen looked at and can verify from my system's behavior  
that nothing is locked, including Acrobat reader itself. It seems  
almost as though Acrobat reader is somehow blocking accessibility  
information from getting to Orca, though I'm not sure if that's even  
possible. I can do nothing with Orca until the acrobat reader process  
is killed, but my system operates normally in every other way. One  
interesting fact, and no idea if it's relevant, but I need to send a  
sigkill to the acroread process, simply using the kill command is not  
enough. This is with Acrobat reader 8.1.3, is there another version I  
should use? Or is something else happening? Any ideas?

Thanks



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