Re: [orca-list] Problem with orca and webkit in epiphany

["Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>]

I see the bug report for making orca work with MathML in webkit, that would 
be so great if it could be done.

Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mario Sanchez Prada" <msanchez igalia com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Problem with orca and webkit in epiphany


> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 11:20 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Being fed up with the bugs in mozilla stuff, I decided to take another
> > look at how webkit support is coming along. What is the official status
> > of webkit support in orca? Anyway, I noticed smoe issues.
>
> Yeah, there are some issues since accessibility support in WebKitGTK+
> (the port of WebKit that epiphany uses) is an ongoing effort, and so
> many bugs are still in there, and also some features pending to be
> implemented yet.
>
> Check for instance the following query in WebKit's bugzilla:
> http://tinyurl.com/cy7k4f5
>
> As you can see there's still much that needs to be done, but we're on
> it, so don't give up yet. Actually, main efforts in this sense are
> currently being put to make Orca work with WebKit2 (the new multiprocess
> architecture of WebKit)[1] as it does with WebKit1, and as soon as we
> get there the plan is to keep fixing accessibility bugs in the core of
> WebKit (WebCore), which will benefit both WebKit1 and WebKit2 at the
> same time.
>
> But resources are scarce in this field so things go perhaps not so fast
> as it should be desirable, hope you understand.
>
> > If you go to http://www.vogella.de/articles/OSGi/article.html and
> > navigate down to section 3.2, you will find a code example. Orca does
> > not read the lines of code correct if you cursor up and down and also
> > Braille is not updated correctly. I am unsure how best to describe what
> > is going on, however it is certainly obviously producing the wrong
> > speech and Braille. Could this be related to the issue in gedit where
> > lines were being run into one although the cursor was still respecting
> > the lines when moving?
>
> Can't tell for sure (Orca developers will probably know better, though),
> since I'm seeing all the text in those code sections through Accerciser,
> so they are definitely being exposed. But perhaps, they are not being
> exposed *properly*, and hence that's where the bug comes from.
>
> It would be worth it to investigate the issue a bit more and file a bug
> either in bugzilla.gnome.org or bugs.webkit.org if that was the case.
> Feel free to do it so if you want to.
>
> > I am using orca 3.2, epiphany 3.2.1 and webkit 1.6.1.
>
> Yeah, those are the latest versions of the three musketeers, so you're
> already using the latest code, I'm afraid, which means you'll have to
> wait to future versions to get it working fine :(
>
> Hope you find this reply helpful,
>
> Mario
>
> [1]http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2011/11/11/orca-and-webkit2gtk-initial-results


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