Re: [orca-list] Progress on WebKitGtk + Epiphany for access to web content

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
Just to refresh my memory, the new webkit stuff is not making it inot the desktop branch of Orca?
thanks
Storm

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On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 23:38 +0100, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> For the past week or so I've been working on Orca's support for
> WebKitGtk with a focus on Epiphany, and I plan to continue to do so over
> the the weeks to come with an emphasis on:
>
> * Finishing the label inference support for WebKitGtk -- i.e. guessing 
>   labels for unlabeled form content which, alas, we continue to see far
>   too often from content creators. The first bits were just committed,
>   and I hope to commit some more tomorrow.
> * Adding braille support for lines with embedded objects. That way if
>   you arrow to a line with, say, text and form fields, Orca will present
>   the full line. The speech support for this was added the other day. 
> * Evaluating all of the major ARIA toolkits with WebKitGtk, fixing Orca 
>   bugs, filing WebKitGtk bugs, etc.
> * Fixing any other bugs I find along the way.
>
> I continue to be pleased at the performance of WebKitGtk with Orca, the
> fact that text selection JustWorks(tm), the fact that we do not have to
> implement our own caret navigation for WebKitGtk content, and so on, and
> so forth. If we could just flush out the issues that remain, I think we
> can have a really awesome solution for *nix web access.
>
> Which brings me to the following request for your help: If you are a
> user, it would be extremely helpful if you could be testing with the
> latest Epiphany, WebKitGtk, and Orca from master and file reports as
> Michael Whapples began doing. If you are a distro package maintainer, it
> would be great if you could be packaging the latest of the above items
> so that users can more easily do the requested testing.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help! Take care.
> --joanie
>
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