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

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hi Joanie,
Thanks a lot, that helped!
Best regards,
Christian


On 2011-12-17 at 18:49 Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

> 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