Re: [orca-list] Orca problem in combo boxes.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

As a workaround, you can try pressing Alt+Down or Alt+Up to open the
combobox.  This seems to wake things up a little bit.

Will

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:22 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Balaram:
>
> There are many different variables involved here: the os distribution,
> GNOME, the application/toolkit, etc.  In the case of web pages, there's
> also the content provider.  Unfortunately, your main interface is Orca,
> so it can appear as though all problems you run into are issues with
> Orca itself.
>
> I just tested the gmail new accounts page with Orca, and it appears to
> me as though either Firefox or the gmail accounts page are the source of
> the problem: no AT-SPI events are issued when I arrow up/down the combo
> boxes on that page.  Through some magic twist of fate, which I'm not
> able to reproduce, I eventually got the combo box to emit events, but
> I'm not sure how I did it.
>
> In any case, I've logged a bug against Mozilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504561
>
> We're tracking it in the Orca bug database here:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588779
>
> Will
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 11:26 +0530, balaram wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > This time it's about Orca not been able to read anything in combo boxes
> > in web pages.
> > When I tried to create an account in Gmail, I had to be really
> > disappointed with orca not being able to read anything in the question
> > selection combo box.
> > This is in Ubuntu 9.04 with orca 2.26.
> > This was not so with ubuntu 8.10.
> > Why these heart breaking insidents occures with 
> > upgradation of Ubuntu and Orca?
> > Is there any work around for this problem?
> > Your suggestions are much appreciated.
> > RGDS,
> > P. Balaraman.
> >
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