Re: [orca-list] Firefox 8 and latest Orca git

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Christian.

On 12/17/2011 06:31 PM, Christian wrote:
> Hi, I have been trying to use Firefox 8 that I installed directly
> from the Arch linux packaging system, but it doesn't seem to be
> accessible. Will I need to download it from Mozillas website
> instead? Many thanks, Christian

See this Mozilla bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693343
"accessibility always disabled in GNOME 3 unless GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY is set"

And this orca-list thread:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2011-November/msg00118.html
Here's the copy and paste for your convenience:

> From: Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Unable to use Firefox 7 or 8
> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:52:08 +1100
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:30:32PM EST, Jason White wrote:
> > Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> >
> > > It's probably the known bug whereby the new mechanism for activating
> > > accessibility support isn't recognized by Firefox. You have to set certain
> > > environment variables, but I'm having trouble finding the mailing list message
> > > that tells me what the settings must be.
> >
> > I found it. The advice was to run Firefox with GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 in your
> > environment.
>
> A more permanent solution is to set the /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility key to true, in a terminal 
> like so:
>
> gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true
>
> Luke

Hope this helps. Take care.
--joanie