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

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Luke Yelavich writes:
> 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
And, I even had an old script lyeing around for checking and setting
this, courtessy of the old Sun Micro ...

<BEGIN CODE>
#!/bin/sh

if test $# -eq 0
        then gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
fi

if test $# -eq 1
        then if test $1 = on -o $1 = true
                then gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility \
                                 -t bool true
        elif test $1 = off -o $1 = false
                then gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility \
                                 -t bool false
        else echo gnome-accessibility: unknown command $1
        fi
fi
<END CODE>

Embarrasing to forget the basics!

Janina

> Luke
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