Re: [orca-list] Unable to use Firefox 7 or 8

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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